Up to 90% Progress Made on New Nuclear Deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Says

© AP Photo / IRIB In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on Sunday, April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran, Iran
In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on Sunday, April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran, Iran - Sputnik International, 1920, 13.07.2022
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ROME (Sputnik) - The negotiators working on the new nuclear deal with Iran have made 90% progress on gaining consent for the draft agreement, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday.
"The new Iranian government has entered into serious negotiations with its counterparts on the nuclear issue. We came to the draft agreement, which received 90% consent from the 4+1 format [the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and China], but also from the Americans," the minister said in an interview with Italian newspaper la Repubblica.
Abdollahian added that Iran was in contact with the United States about the lifting of sanctions, and significant progress was made both in the project and in the ideas presented at the negotiations.
One of the obstacles to the completion of the negotiations is the refusal of the US to exclude Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the list of terrorist organizations, the minister said.
In this picture taken  April 9, 2009  the  exterior view of Iran's Uranium Conversion Facility  outside the city of Isfahan, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran is photographed. - Sputnik International, 1920, 12.07.2022
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The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deal with Iran was signed in 2015 by the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Germany, the United States, France, the European Union and Iran. It imposed restrictions on the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions. In May 2018, then US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from JCPOA and reimposed sanctions on Iran. Iranian authorities responded with a gradual withdrawal from JCPOA, abandoning restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and the level of uranium enrichment.
In December 2021, the sides agreed on two drafts of the new deal, but no definite agreement has been reached. The latest round of JCPOA negotiations took place in Doha, capital of Qatar, from June 29-30.
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