Westerners’ Mood Changing by Hour, Source in Vienna JCPOA Talks Says
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A source close to the Iranian team of negotiators in the Vienna talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal bemoaned the “hourly” mood swings of the Western diplomats involved in the negotiations.
In an interview with Tasnim, the source close to the Iranian negotiators in Vienna said the mood of the Western diplomats and sources changes by the hour.
The Westerners make a different claim each time regarding Iran’s stances in the course of negotiations, the source added.
Deploring the paradoxical narrations from the Western sources, the informed Iranian source said, “First, they (Westerners) said ‘Iran has reconsidered its stances’. A few hours later, they changed their proposition, saying that ‘Iran’s stances have not changed’.”
Since April, Vienna has been hosting negotiations on the revival of the JCPOA, which would require the US to remove its anti-Iran sanctions three years after Washington walked out of the multilateral agreement and slapped the bans on Iran to kill the deal.
The seventh round of talks between Iran and the P4+1 group of countries resumed in the Austrian capital on Thursday after being paused on December 3, when the participants returned to their capitals for additional consultations on two draft proposals that Tehran had put forward. The talks started on November 29 after a hiatus in the negotiations due to the presidential election in Iran.