“We agreed to start negotiations before the end of November. The date will be announced next week,” Ali Bagheri, who also serves as Tehran’s chief negotiator on the nuclear issue, said on Twitter.
“I had a serious and constructive conversation with Enrique Mora about the essential elements of a good negotiation,” he said about his meeting with the European mediator.
“There is nothing to announce for now” on the Brussels side, a European source said after the meeting.
“After having evaluated the talks between Bagheri and Mora, we will decide the date on which we will start the negotiations with the 4 + 1 group (of the five signatory states), but it will not be long,” said the head of Iranian diplomacy Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
“The negotiations must take place in Vienna,” added the European source in Brussels.
The Iranians asked to meet with Enrique Mora to “discuss matters that remained in suspense” after the conversation with the European negotiator on October 14 in Tehran.
“They want clarifications on the text that is on the table (in Vienna) and on the bilateral contacts with some signatory countries,” a European official said last week.
But it was by no means a question for the Europeans to negotiate anything bilaterally with the representatives of the Iranian regime.
The European Union (EU) pressures the Iranians to resume the negotiations started in Vienna to save the moribund nuclear agreement with Tehran, which prevents it from equipping itself with a nuclear weapon. Talks have been stalled since the June election of the new Iranian president.
The agreement concluded between Iran on the one hand, and United States, United Kingdom, China, Russia, France and Germany on the other, it allowed the lifting of part of the international sanctions against Tehran, in exchange for a drastic reduction of its nuclear program, under strict control of the UN.
Americans grow impatient and again warn that they are willing to “take other steps” if negotiations to salvage the Iranian nuclear deal fail.
The “door” of diplomacy “will not remain open forever,” warned US emissary to Iran Rob Malley.
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