Iran “will not accept anything less than the nuclear agreement” .....

  Birbock said the negotiations went back six months (Olivier Doolieri/AFP)
Today, Saturday, German Foreign Minister Annalina Bierbock saw that there is no glimmer of progress in... Nuclear talks with IranConfirming that time is running out. 

She told reporters, on the sidelines of a meeting ofgroup of seven In Liverpool, England, according to “Reuters”: “It appeared in the past days that we are not making any progress… because of the offer made by the Iranian government. The negotiations went back six months.”

Iran’s chief negotiator: We will accept nothing less than the nuclear deal

In addition, the chief Iranian negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, confirmed, this evening, Saturday, that his country “will not accept anything less than the nuclear agreement,” saying, in an interview with Iranian television, that “the contentious issues during the previous six rounds have not been resolved yet, and they are on the table.”

“We are waiting to know the new American direction during this round of negotiations, and on the basis of that we will judge,” the Iranian official said.

It is noteworthy that the American delegation headed by Robert Malley has not yet joined the Vienna negotiations after they resumed since Thursday, and it is scheduled to join the indirect negotiations with Tehran tomorrow, Sunday, to revive nuclear dealWhich has become reeling, and there is not much left of it, yet Washington withdrew from it in 2018.And the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran in a more comprehensive and harsh manner than before, and the latter’s termination against the background of most of its nuclear commitments stipulated in the nuclear agreement.

After Joe Biden assumed the US presidency, and adopted a diplomatic approach towards Iran, Tehran entered into indirect negotiations with it since last April through the member states of the nuclear agreement, Russia, China, France, Britain, Germany and the European Union.

As of June 20, the two sides engaged in six rounds of negotiations, which made progress. The parties talked about agreeing on more than 80 percent of the issues, and sensitive issues remain unresolved.

Then negotiations stopped after the sixth round at an Iranian request, under the pretext of presidential elections and the transfer of power, before they resumed on November 29. The seventh round continued for five days without achieving progress, amid American and European objections to two draft proposals submitted by the Iranian delegation regarding lifting sanctions and nuclear steps. Negotiations were suspended on Friday, the third of this month, and then resumed last Thursday.

Blinken discusses the nuclear agreement with his counterparts from Britain, Germany and France

In addition, a spokesman for the US State Department said, today, Saturday, that the minister Anthony Blinken On Friday, he held a “fruitful” meeting with his counterparts from Britain, Germany and France, during which they discussed the Iranian nuclear agreement.

“Secretary Blinken had a fruitful meeting with his counterparts … from Germany, France and the United Kingdom, in Liverpool yesterday. They discussed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the Iran nuclear deal) and what we will take in the coming period,” a US State Department spokesman said, according to Reuters. .

The meeting was held in the city of Liverpool in northern England on the eve of a meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Seven, at the conclusion of which is expected to issue a joint appeal to Iran to curb its nuclear program, and to seize the opportunity of the ongoing talks in Vienna.