Iran mentioned Monday it stays “optimistic” a few doable revival of the 2015 nuclear deal after the European Union tabled a proposal aiming for a compromise within the talks stalled since March.

“We stay optimistic that the negotiation course of will lead us to a logical and cheap consequence,” overseas ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani mentioned at his weekly information convention.

The remark comes after the EU overseas coverage chief and coordinator of the nuclear talks between Iran and world powers, Josep Borrell, final Tuesday submitted a brand new draft textual content and urged the totally different sides of the negotiations to simply accept it or “threat a harmful nuclear disaster”.

Negotiations in Vienna started in April 2021 to revive the deal however have stalled since March amid variations between Tehran and Washington on a number of points.

The 2 sides negotiated not directly via the European Union coordinator in a bid to carry the US again into the deal and to elevate sanctions on Iran on the premise that Tehran would return to its nuclear commitments.

Qatar hosted oblique talks finish of June between the US and Iran in a bid to get the Vienna course of again on observe, however these discussions broke up after two days with none breakthrough.

Borrell mentioned the draft textual content consists of “hard-won compromises by all sides” and “addresses, in exact element, the sanctions lifting in addition to the nuclear steps wanted to revive” the 2015 pact.

“The Iranian facet has fastidiously reviewed the textual content and offered its views,” Kanani mentioned. “It’s doable that within the close to future, we are able to attain a conclusion relating to the timetable for the negotiations.”

“We are going to in all probability see a brand new spherical of negotiations,” Kanani added, however famous that “it relies upon fully on the willingness of the opposite facet, particularly the American facet.”

The 2015 settlement gave Iran sanctions reduction in trade for curbs on its atomic programme to ensure that it couldn’t develop a nuclear weapon — one thing it has all the time denied looking for.

However the US unilateral withdrawal from the accord in 2018 underneath then-president Donald Trump and Washington’s reimposition of biting financial sanctions prompted Iran to start rolling again by itself commitments.

Washington “should present that it’s prepared for an affordable, logical and lasting settlement”, Kanani mentioned.