No High-Level Meeting Held In Iran Over EU’s Proposals To Save JCPOA

Iran's Supreme National Security Council says no high-level meeting has yet been held regarding the EU-proposed "final text" to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.

In a report on Wednesday, Nour News, a website affiliated with the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Ali Shamkhani, said since Tehran’s lead negotiator Ali Bagheri-Kani and his team returned from Vienna "the process of examining the ideas proposed by the European Union coordinator has started at the expert level and is still continuing."

No high-level meeting has yet been held to review the EU’s ideas in Tehran, and according to the usual procedure, after the completion of the expert review process, the preliminary results will be presented to the relevant decision-making bodies for a final decision, the report said.

On Monday, August 8, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell discussed the latest round of Vienna nuclear talks, reiterating that all parties involved in the talks must take serious steps toward reaching the final text of an agreement.

Iran insists that the text offered for renewing the 2015 nuclear deal is not a final agreement but European officials described the document to journalists as a ‘take it or leave it’ offer for both sides.

Tehran demanded more drastic concessions outside the scope of the original agreement, including the closure an International Atomic Energy Agency probe into undeclared nuclear material found in three undisclosed sites.