A tripartite plan presented by European officials, which would extend Iran’s “breakout time” and make a revival of the Iran nuclear deal more feasible, has been rejected by Iran, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The proposed deal would have lengthened the time that Iran would need to produce the materials required to create a nuclear weapon.
The rejected plan would have also seen advanced centrifuges put into storage, electronic infrastructure used to operate machines currently prohibited under the terms of the deal removed, and the country’s ability to produce new centrifuges reduced.
According to the report, negotiators also got close to agreeing to a deal that would be have seen Iran’s uranium stockpile sent to Russia, but several sources close to the talks have said that Iran is insistent that it will not allow any of its advanced centrifuges to be destroyed.
It is not known whether the European deal was proposed as part of the ongoing negotiations in Vienna, or independent of the talks.
Talks between Iran and Western powers have been ongoing for months, aimed at restarting the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but fresh doubts have been cast on the negotiations with the election of Iranian hardliner Ebrahim Raisi.
Source : Arab News
