Tehran prepares to reject American proposal for Iran's atomic program “ Reuters reports, citing a high-ranking Iranian diplomat.
Earlier, Oman presented to Iran details of the US atomic agreement proposal, said Iranian abroad Minister Abbas Araqchi. The White home said Tehran should accept it. The ISNA press agency announced on Monday that the U.S.'s written proposal on Iran's atomic programme was far from acceptable conditions for an agreement with Iran.
"Iran prepares a negative consequence to the U.S. proposal, which can be interpreted as rejecting an American bid," quotes Reuters.
According to the source, the proposal "leaves the U.S. position unchanged on enrichment of uranium on Iranian soil" and does not contain "a clear explanation for the abolition of sanctions".
Iran and the US, at the mediation of Oman, held 5 rounds of indirect talks on Iran's atomic dossier. The last 1 was held in Rome on May 23. After their completion, Iranian abroad Minister Abbas Araqchi said that Oman proposed mechanisms that could aid remove obstacles to advancement in talks. specified progress, according to the Iranian minister, is possible in 1 or 2 rounds.
At the same time, before the 5th round, the contradictions between the parties intensified. And so, before the negotiations, the United States demanded Iran not to enrich uranium, while the Iranian organization rejected specified requests, indicating that the parties would not be able to scope an agreement if the United States insisted on Tehran rejecting uranium enrichment technology.
At the same time, Iran allowed the anticipation of reducing uranium enrichment levels and besides spoke of its readiness to let greater control of its atomic activities to show the peaceful nature of the Iranian atomic programme.
In 2015, the United Kingdom, China, France, Germany, Russia, the USA and Iran entered into a atomic Agreement (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA), which included abolishing sanctions in exchange for reducing Iran's atomic program. The United States in the erstwhile presidential word of Donald Trump withdrew from JCPOA in May 2018 and restored sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a gradual simplification of its obligations under the agreement, including the abolition of restrictions on atomic research.
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Iran will reject the U.S. atomic agreement, reports the media