US may rethink Iran ‘s approach if there is no agreement “in the near future” New conflicts

When it comes to easing U.S. sanctions, Iran’s centrifuges are sticky points when the Ebrahim Raisi elections stop talks.

Washington will have to rethink its vision for Iran in order to continue to comply with the 2015 nuclear deal if serious differences between the two countries cannot be resolved “in the near future,” a senior U.S. official said Thursday.

“We still have serious differences … because of the many problems, the nuclear steps that Iran has to take, the easing of sanctions that the US would offer or the continuation of steps that both sides would take,” the official told reporters in a conference call.

“This process will not be open forever,” the official added, Reuters reported on condition of anonymity.

“We have differences and if we don’t get those bridges in the near future, I think we’re going to have to come back together and figure out how … we’re going to move forward.”

The sixth round of indirect talks between the US and Iran was interrupted on Sunday, two days after the toughest Ebrahim Raisi, the head of the Iranian judiciary facing US sanctions, was elected president of Iran. Raisi is due to take office in August.

The official said the U.S. delegation would return to Vienna in the not-too-distant future for the seventh round, but did not know when – suggesting a key factor there would be internal consultations after Raisi’s election.

Iran reached an agreement with major powers in 2015 to launch a uranium enrichment program, a possible route to nuclear weapons, in exchange for the lifting of US, European Union and UN sanctions.

Former US President Donald Trump he canceled the deal In 2018 and harsh sanctions were re-imposed, prompting Tehran to start violating some nuclear restrictions in 2019, while maintaining its nuclear weapons intentions. US President Joe Biden is trying to restore the deal.

The top US official did not want to give details sticking points in lectures, indirect, because Iran is renouncing the US party. European diplomats are the main mediators.

An official who took part in the talks said that Iran’s enrichment with a large number of advanced centrifuges is an unresolved issue, as well as Iran’s request to “verify” compliance with the US before reducing its nuclear program.

This official said the verification meant Relieving U.S. sanctions, Iran would export some oil and pay through an international bank before Tehran would take steps to make less use of its program to make nuclear weapons.

Under the 2015 agreement, Iran allowed the use of advanced centrifuges only in small quantities and not the accumulation of enriched uranium.

A Western diplomat acknowledged that there had been major setbacks in the sequence of steps, and that Iranians were demanding immediate access to the US dollar and the international banking sector.

Western diplomats said that advanced centrifuges, which can produce highly enriched uranium more efficiently, were a deterrent and suggested that Iran might be allowed to store some of them.

In an unexpected move on June 23, the U.S. Department of Justice 36 websites hijacked Conducting rapid criticism of Iranian officials for carrying out “disinformation campaigns and malicious influence operations” on ties with the Iranian state.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry cited the kidnapping as an example of a “systematic effort to distort freedom of expression worldwide and to silence independent voices in the media,” adding that Iran will continue on legal avenues.