TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Senior Iranian officials said Thursday the speedy achievement of an agreement in the Vienna negotiations on the restoration of a 2015 nuclear deal hinges on the West's political decisions on the remaining important issues.
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said in a tweet the final stage of the talks in Vienna will not "take place" unless the West takes the political decision to resolve the remaining crucial issues needed for a balanced deal.
For his part, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani listed in a tweet the requirements for taking the last step and reaching an agreement in Vienna as extra caution, greater perseverance, additional creatively and adoption of a balanced approach.
He stressed that to finish the job, the United States and E3 group of France, Britain and Germany are required to take a number of certain political decisions.
Iran signed the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with the world powers in July 2015. However, former President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement in May 2018 and reimposed Washington's unilateral sanctions on Tehran.
Since April 2021, several rounds of talks have been held in the Austrian capital between Iran and the remaining JCPOA parties, namely Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, to revive the deal. ■
