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EU says no Iran nuclear deal talks in Brussels on Thursday
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BRUSSELS, 19 October 2021, (TON): EU leaders delivered a snub to Iran amid fears that Tehran is playing for time over talks to revive the collapsed 2015 deal to curb its nuclear program.
A day after Iran’s Foreign Ministry said “discussions with the EU would take place in Brussels on Thursday, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said no such meeting was planned or would happen.
Borrel made it clear that there would be no serious talks outside the framework of negotiations between world powers and Iran in Vienna, and said time was not on Iran’s side.
He said Iranian officials had requested bilateral meetings with him and other parties to the deal, although the wish was not “precise.”
“We made it clear to the Iranians that time is not on their side and it’s better to go back to the negotiating table quickly,”
Western diplomats are concerned that Tehran’s new hard-line negotiating team may make demands beyond the scope of what was already agreed before the Vienna talks stalled in June.
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