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It did, however, provide the benefit of winding down the previously expanding Iranian nuclear programme and opening it up to strict IAEA monitoring and inspections. The JCPOA does not address them, and was never supposed to do so. We continuously address them with Iran in bilateral discussions. The EU shares concerns that go beyond the nuclear issue, such as human rights and Iran’s regional activities. We know the JCPOA remains politically polarising in Washington as the mid-term elections approach. The deal may not have addressed all US concerns with respect to Iran.

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Decisions need to be taken now to seize this unique opportunity to succeed, and to free up the great potential of a fully implemented deal. I see no other comprehensive or effective alternative within reach. It is not a perfect agreement, but it addresses all essential elements and includes hard-won compromises by all sides. This text represents the best possible deal that I, as facilitator of the negotiations, see as feasible. I have now put on the table a text that addresses, in precise detail, the sanctions lifting as well as the nuclear steps needed to restore the JCPOA.

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The aim was to facilitate a US return to the deal and full US and Iranian implementation of their JCPOA commitments.Īfter 15 months of intense, constructive negotiations in Vienna and countless interactions with the JCPOA participants and the US, I have concluded that the space for additional significant compromises has been exhausted.

To reverse this dangerous escalation, in my capacity as JCPOA co-ordinator, I seized the political momentum of a new US administration to launch in April 2021 a diplomatic process involving the JCPOA participants and the US. Meanwhile, and despite the best efforts of the remaining participants, Iran’s people have been deprived of the full benefits of the sanctions lifting. Regrettably, it has also limited IAEA monitoring, while failing to co-operate fully with the agency under its basic safeguards obligations. For its part, Iran has ratcheted up nuclear activity to alarming levels. In return, it opened up the prospect of benefiting economically from the lifting of US, EU and UN sanctions to Iran.įull implementation of this deal has been severely affected by Donald Trump’s decision in 2018 to withdraw the US from it and to pursue a unilateral “maximum pressure” campaign. It secured strict limits on Iran’s nuclear activities and the most extensive monitoring and inspection regime ever implemented by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was the result of years of intense diplomacy on Iran’s nuclear programme and won the UN Security Council’s unanimous endorsement. Seven years ago, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Germany, Iran and the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy concluded a landmark diplomatic deal.

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