Iran And US Both Claim Readiness To Revive JCPOA

Tehran and Washington both continue to claim that they are ready and eager to restart talks to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear accords.

• Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said at a press conference today: "We tabled a new political package and the US accepted the initiative, but also insisted on passing the resolution at IAEA... Messages are being exchanged through EU’s Mora & Borrell. Iran will not deviate from the logic of diplomacy & negotiations to reach a good deal."
• Yesterday in a joint presser with his ROK counterpart, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: “…it is fundamentally up to Iran to decide whether or not it wishes to re-engage in that agreement because the work in terms of re-engaging in that agreement has for the most part been completed.
• He continued: “So fundamentally, it’s up to Iran, and we’ll see quickly, I would imagine, what it proposes to do by its actions. And the actions that we’ve seen are not encouraging.”
• Despite the claims the rift between Tehran and the IAEA continues to widen. Today Iran stated that the origin of nuclear materials at Marivan, Varamin, and Turquzabad is unknown and claims that sabotage is the only plausible explanation.