T. Belman. The JCPOA expires in 2025 and lifts sanctions in 2023. Why bother reviving it? No one is suggesting what changes are being negotiated. The bottom line is Europe and the US want to start trading with Iran and want Iran’s oil released to the world. Is there any other purpose? I thought Russia was supposed to do the negotiating?
Tehran also plans to install an additional six IR-2m cascades at the facility in a new operating unit. Officials in Jerusalem skeptical whether efforts will lead to a breakthrough this time around.
Tamir Morag , i24NEWS and Reuters
Centrifuge machines in Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran | File photo: AP via Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
Iran has completed installing three advanced IR-6 centrifuge cascades at its Natanz fuel enrichment plant, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency report to member states on Wednesday seen by Reuters.
Tehran has also informed the agency it planned to install an additional six IR-2m cascades at the facility in a new operating unit, the report said.
The report comes as senior Iranian, US, and European officials arrived in Vienna for talks this week to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
“On our way to Vienna to discuss returning to full implementation of the JCPOA,” European Union coordinator Enrique Mora tweeted on Wednesday.
He will be joined on-site by Iranian chief negotiator Ali Bagheri. “Heading to Vienna to advance negotiations,” Bagheri wrote on Twitter, saying the ball is in Washington court.
US envoy Robert Malley also announced his trip to the Austrian capital, “Our expectations are in check, but the United States welcomes EU efforts and is prepared for a good faith attempt to reach a deal.” Echoing Tehran’s warnings, he said, “It will shortly be clear if Iran is prepared for the same.”
Indirect talks between Iran and the US began in April 2021, and have stalled since March this year.
According to official in Jerusalem, nuclear talk efforts are unlikely to result in a breakthrough this time around.
“The renewal of the nuclear talks is a desperate attempt the Iranians and the Europeans to wring water from stones. We don’t see much progress happening in the talks, and the fact that the Europeans sent a relatively junior representative is a sign of this,” a political source told Israel Hayom.
It looks like covert sabotage will continue to be the only way for now.
Since the February 2007 NIE report that Iran was NOT pursuing nukes we are seeing again and again the same old grotesque smokescreen . Bibi warning to the Congress and the UN – Obama stretching a welcoming hand to Iran for a brighter future – JCPOA – Trump withdrawal from JCPOA without further effects than Iran running more openly to Nukes .And cherry on this monumental piece of deceptive Soap Opera : The top brass of Israel military ( Ashkenazi-Dagan ) refusing in November 2010 to obey the Bibi-Barak orders to prepare for attack; The dice has been thrown. Total loss .
Reporting is interesting. Proves that we have excellent intelligence in place. Disposing of the new cascades is now critical. Regrettably, The inner strength required at military planning, command and operational levels is absent due to the political inclinations by the top… staff.
That layer must be culled and every Staff officer found unfit for the task by civilian elected officials tasked for the purpose, must be replaced in short notice.
Gantz is unfit. He instituted the “cease fire” and accommodate protocols..