The eighth round of the Joint Commission meetings of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has been the lonest and most complicated negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement.
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, who left Vienna for Tehran for a short consultation with Iranian authorities, returned to Austria on March 9 to resume talks.
The trip occurs in an atmosphere that stances taken by diplomats present in the Vienna talks indicate the negotiations are coming closer to the final stage and they believe both sides should take political decisions. However, the Islamic Republic underlined that the ball is in the court of the US and Europe to decide on a potential Vienna agreement.
A trip made by Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi to Tehran on March 5 paved the way for both sides to strike a deal to resolve outstanding issues concerning Safeguards Agreement. The deal has been described by Russian top representative in the Vienna talks Mikhail Ulyanov as a great achievement.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh emphasized that there is a direct link between closing of IAEA questions and agreement in Vienna.
--West’s media hype
In a juncture that the Vienna talks is very close to conclusion, the Western powers resort to their media campaign to influence the Iranian negotiating team. Although, such a policy seems not to be a new strategy, because they utilized it in fomenting Russophobia, sowing discord among eastern bloc in the Vienna talks and trying to create concern in the Iranian delegation by the use of rumors such as trigger mechanism as well as propaganda on failure of the negotiations.
The Western circles attempt to induce that the Vienna talks may end up in a failure in order to propagate psychological warfare to affect the diplomatic quarrel in line with interest of the United States and its European allies.
However, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi ruled out propaganda campaign, stipulating that the administration in Tehran pursues the nuclear negotiations on the basis of principles outlined by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, underscoring that the negotiators will not retreat from any redlines.
The Iranian authorities have time and again noted that they will not tie the economic development of the Islamic country to the result of the Vienna talks, and that they are determined to pursue a balanced strategy in foreign policy.
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