
Shanghai locks down as COVID surges in China's financial hubĭiplomats said the negotiations have entered a crucial stage, given Iran’s uncompromising policy in the talks and the other parties’ involvement in the crisis over Ukraine. nuclear watchdog that Tehran had failed to fully explain uranium traces at undeclared sites. Tehran also insists the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) drop its claims about Tehran’s nuclear work, objecting to last year’s assertion by the U.N. Its 2019 FTO designation by Washington has caused further problems for Iran’s sanction-hit economy. The Guards is a powerful faction in Iran that controls a business empire as well as elite armed forces and intelligence services. Iranian officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. Iran has previously said that removing the Guards from the terrorism list was under discussion.

“They now insist on removal of sanctions on the IRGC and want to open issues that had already been agreed.” “Iran’s stance after Bagheri’s trip to Tehran has become even more uncompromising,” said one of the sources. foreign terrorist organisation (FTO) designation against Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Two sources close to the talks said Iran had submitted new demands, while continuing to insist on existing ones, including the removal of a U.S.

Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, who flew to Tehran last week for consultations about the final draft of the deal, met the European Union’s Enrique Mora, who coordinates the talks in Vienna, on Monday.
