• Ar
  • Es
Al Mayadeen English

Slogan

  • News
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Sports
    • Arts&Culture
    • Health
    • Miscellaneous
    • Technology
    • Environment
  • Articles
    • Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Blog
    • Feature
  • Videos
  • Infographs
  • In Pictures
  • • LIVE
News
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Arts&Culture
  • Health
  • Miscellaneous
  • Technology
  • Environment
Articles
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Blog
  • Feature
Videos
Infographs
In Pictures
  1. Home
  2. News
  3. MENA Europe US & Canada
  4. Kirby: closer to a nuclear deal than two weeks earlier
US & Canada

Kirby: closer to a nuclear deal than two weeks earlier

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 24 Aug 2022 22:58

White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says the US will not negotiate in public when asked about the US' remarks on the EU's nuclear deal proposal with Iran.

  • White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby (White House)
    White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby (White House)

When asked whether the US has reacted to the EU's Iran nuclear proposal and Tehran's remarks on the suggested draft, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby stated to reporters on Wednesday that the Biden administration will not negotiate in public.
 
Kirby said during the press conference that "We're not going to want to negotiate this thing in public and hash out every step of the process here and publicly," and added that he can confirm that Iran did drop a few concessions that were vital to the progress made in the revival of the nuclear deal.  
 
Kirby stated that there are still issues that must be resolved in the negotiations with Iran, including Tehran's refusal to cooperate with an IAEA inquiry into its nuclear program.

According to Kirby, the IAEA discovered small amounts of nuclear material in Iran that had not been disclosed, and they now need to know where that stuff is in order to be certain that Iran does not possess any nuclear material that is not under IAEA oversight.

On August 23, Israeli media cited a security source revealing that "the United States of America has relinquished all its demands to Iran." The source explains that "the assessment is that at this stage the crystallized agreement cannot be stopped," and that "Tehran got the dream deal."

Furthermore, on the same date, the advisor to the Iranian delegation in the Vienna negotiations, Seyed Mohammad Marandi, said, on Tuesday, that what is being promoted through the Western media about the course of the ongoing negotiations to reach an agreement is "misleading", and that the Iranian nuclear program "will not be dismantled."

In a tweet via his personal account, Marandi responded to a Reuters article titled "Exclusive: Iran has dropped some demands for the nuclear deal, U.S. official says" by arguing that the title is "very misleading," and that "I've said for MONTHS, removing the Guards from the FTO is not a precondition. No deal will be implemented before the IAEA Board of Directors PERMANENTLY closes the false accusations file."

Read more: Iran rejected US bid to negotiate regional role, missile capabilities

  • Vienna negotiations
  • US
  • JCPOA
  • EU
  • Nuclear Deal
  • John Kirby
  • Iran

Trending Now

All
Iran's U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi

EU officials: JCPOA revival might not get to finishing line

Most Read

A woman walks by a money exchange shop decorated with different countries currency banknotes at Central, a business district in Hong Kong, Aug. 6, 2019 (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

New BRICS currency underway: State Duma Deputy Chairman

  • Europe
  • 30 Mar
hhh

UAE, KSA, India, South Korea secretly supplying missiles to Ukraine

  • Europe
  • 28 Mar
A view of the exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP)

Iran wins ICJ motion against US over illegal seizure of assets

  • Europe
  • 30 Mar
China, Brazil announce de-dollarization of mutual trade

China, Brazil announce de-dollarization of mutual trade

  • Latin America
  • 30 Mar

Read this

All
An AI robot at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in 2020 (Reuters)
US & Canada

Shut down AI or 'everyone on Earth will die', researcher warns

  • 1 Apr
Ben-Gvir
Palestine

Ex-Israeli police chief to Netanyahu: Ben-Gvir could launch coup

  • 1 Apr
ds
Europe

US nuke umbrella can't protect Kiev from 'powerful Russian fire': DPRK

  • 1 Apr
An image of the Colnbrook immigration removal center in the UK in 2004 (AP)
Europe

UK immigration detention detainee death, suicide attempts spark fear

  • 1 Apr
Al Mayadeen English

Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.

All Rights Reserved

  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
Android
iOS