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US says ball in Moscow, Tehran camp to revive nuclear deal
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WASHINGTON, 12 March 2022, (TON): The United States Friday urged Moscow and Tehran to take the decisions needed to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, putting the ball squarely in their camp as last-minute Russian demands threatened to derail the process.
State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters after the European Union announced a pause in negotiations on the deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program “there will need to be decisions made in places like Tehran and Moscow.”
Price said “we are confident that we can achieve mutual return to compliance with the JCPOA if those decisions are made in places like Tehran and Moscow.”
The current round of talks between world powers and Iran, taking place in the Austrian capital Vienna, had appeared close to its goal until Russia made a sudden new set of demands last week.
Russia said “it wanted guarantees that the Western economic sanctions imposed in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine would not affect its trade with Iran.”
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