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The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) has announced that it will conduct security checks on
the recently installed cameras at its Karaj nuclear facility<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zionwarrior6\/Twitter AP
The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) has announced that it will conduct security checks on
the recently installed cameras at its Karaj nuclear facility<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By David Wainer and Nick Wadhams\/ Bloomberg News<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LONDON
Petroleumworld 12 17 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Biden administration still sees no \u201cpathway back\u201d to a revived nuclear deal with Iran after the latest round of talks in Vienna even though world powers including Russia and China are unified, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not going well in the sense that we do not yet have a pathway back\u201d into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the deal that former President Donald Trump quit in 2018, Sullivan told the Council on Foreign Relations. Restoring mutual compliance with the deal \u201chas proven more difficult over the course of this year than we would have liked to see,\u201d Sullivan added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sullivan\u2019s remarks were yet another reminder of how little progress there has been in the seven rounds of talks in Vienna, the latest of which resumed last week following nearly a six-month break. After some early progress, officials have said the negotiating team of Iran\u2019s new president, Ebrahim Raisi, have made demands that set the talks back and have been impossible to meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The silver lining is that the U.S. and Europe are finding rare common ground with Russia and China in talks aimed at bringing Iran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal even as Tehran\u2019s \u201cbreakout time\u201d to have a nuclear weapon grows shorter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat is going well, is unity with our European partners, greater alignment with China and Russia,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cAnd I think an increasing recognition by Iran that it needs to come to the table in a seriously constructive way, and that our patience is by no means unlimited.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran, UN Agree Deal on Nuclear Site Cameras in Boost for Talks<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Progress in Vienna has remained stalled while Iran has continued to ramp up nuclear enrichment activities that leave it ever closer to having weapons-grade uranium. U.S. and European officials on Tuesday issued stern warnings that time was running out for Iran to revise a set of draft proposals presented in the Austrian capital last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. officials haven\u2019t said what their \u201cplan B\u201d would be if talks fail or Iran makes so much progress that returning to the 2015 accord is effectively meaningless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For now, the Iranian nuclear talks are a priority concern for the Biden administration and will be very much at the center of diplomatic efforts during the first quarter of next year, a separate senior U.S. administration official told reporters Friday while reviewing President Joe Biden\u2019s Mideast diplomacy in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran Risks Frayed Ties With Top Ally China Over Nuclear Gambit<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested that the U.S. could soon shift its attention away from attempting to resurrect the 2015 accord. The warning came as France, Germany and U.K. negotiators signaled they were \u201crapidly reaching the end of the road\u201d in the nuclear talks, according to a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps in response to the diplomatic pressure, Iran and nuclear monitors with the International Atomic Energy Agency struck an agreement allowing the United Nations body to replace cameras at a key atomic research site near Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The decision on reinstalling the cameras — a major demand of the IAEA — at a centrifuge workshop that was attacked in June is \u201can important development\u201d that would allow inspectors to \u201cresume necessary continuity of knowledge,\u201d according to a statement from the Vienna-based body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the Biden administration\u2019s professed interest in shifting its foreign policy focus to Asia, Middle East issues continue to be a priority as well, the official said, adding that Biden\u2019s daily national security briefing always includes one or two items from the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ______________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n By David Wainer and Nick Wadhams from Bloomberg News Copyright \u00a91999-2021 Petroleumworld or respective author or news agency. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Petroleumworld.com Copyright \u00a92021 Petroleumworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zionwarrior6\/Twitter APThe Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) has announced that it will conduct security checks onthe recently installed cameras at its Karaj nuclear facility By David Wainer and Nick Wadhams\/ Bloomberg News LONDONPetroleumworld 12 17 2021 The Biden administration still sees no \u201cpathway back\u201d to a revived nuclear deal with Iran after the latest …<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"http:\/\/www.petroleumworld.com\/baners_2020\/horizontal_motorola_dec_english_Add-Mineria-04-EN.jpg\")
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