Indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. have failed in Qatar’s capital with European Union envoy Enrique Mora calling the discussions “intense.”
Mora was the intermediary between Iranian chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani and President Joe Biden’s special envoy, Rob Malley, passing messages back and forth between the two sides as Iran had refused to hold direct talks with the U.S.
The 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, was designed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA in 2018 but the Biden administration has been trying to revive it.
US’s Robert Malley on Tuesday accused Iran for adding "new demands" during the Doha talks, without giving proper details.
However, Iran has rejected the US claims.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, on Wednesday, rejected US claims that Iran has made new "extravagant demands" during indirect talks in Doha to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, Anadolu News Agency reported.
During a joint press conference with his Qatari counterpart, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, in Iran’s capital Tehran, the Foreign Minister of Iran said that Iran’s demands were in line with the 2015 nuclear accord and stated that Tehran was ready for a "good, strong and stable agreement."
The indirect talks between Iran and the US, mediated by the European Union (EU), were held last week.
The first round of the talks lasted just two days, without any significant progress. The negotiations are likely to resume after US President Joe Biden’s forthcoming trip to the Middle East this month.
The Iranian Foreign Minister also said an agreement was possible "only based on mutual understanding and interests" adding that the US "must decide if it wants a deal or insists on sticking to its unilateral demands."
The US –Iran relationship have no diplomacy since the Iranian revolution in 1979, when the US-backed Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi was forced to leave the country on 16 January and two weeks later, Islamic religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile. Following a referendum for the Islamic Republic of Iran, proclaimed on 1 April.
