Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi said that the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 countries have differences in all topics, as far as nuclear talks go.
However he expressed hope that the two sides can achieve the final deal until the 24-Nov. deadline, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported Oct. 20.
“If the opposite sides show goodwill and pay more attention to Iran’s offers, the final agreement will be possible before the deadline,” Araqchi noted.
He also dismissed reports about the Islamic Republic’s agreement to send its enriched uranium outside the country, calling it media speculations.
Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) held their latest round of talks in Vienna in mid-October to work out a final agreement aimed at ending the long-standing dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Last November, Iran and the P5+1 clinched an interim nuclear accord, which took effect on Jan. 20 and expired six months later. However, the two sides agreed to extend their talks until Nov. 24 as they remained divided on a number of key issues.
The West wants Iran to have single-digit thousands of active centrifuges, meaning it would take Tehran a long time to use them for producing high-level enriched uranium for nuclear weapon. Tehran who has 19,000 centrifuges has rejected reducing the number of active enrichment machines.
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