Alwaght- Iran will not allow talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal to take long, and will leave the negotiations if it feels the other parties lack seriousness and only seek to buy time or wish to add other issues to the talks, Islamic Republic's top negotiator in Vienna said on Sunday.
“One cannot predict a specific deadline [for the talks], but we will not let the negotiations become attritional,” Abbas Araqchi said, echoing earlier remarks by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, after attending a meeting of the Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy on the ongoing talks that began early this month in the Austrian capital.
“At the same time, we are not in a rush, because there are serious issues being discussed during the talks, which need to be carefully examined,” said Araqchi, who also serves as Iran’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs.
Iran and the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are currently involved in ongoing discussions to save the deal. The JCPOA has survived almost three years of unilateral US sanctions on Iran, which in turn prompted Tehran to reduce its own commitments in a legal move under the accord.
