The United Nations: Britain, France and Germany are pushing Iran to take a deal that would hold fresh UN sanctions.
The three European powers said the offer gives Tehran more time for conversations about his nuclear program, but only if it allows inspectors back and facilitates Western fear of uranium resistant.
UN broadcasts to the three countries-known as E3-broadcast a joint statement before a closed door safety council meeting, a day after launching a 30-day process to reintroduce UN sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program.
E3 offered to delay the reintroduction of sanctions – known as Snapback – for up to six months if Iran restored access to the UN’s nuclear inspectors, dealt with concern for its stock of enriched uranium and participated in conversations with the United States.
“Our asked were fair and realistic,” said Britain’s UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward, who read the statement. “Today, however, Iran has not shown any indication that it is serious to meet them.”
“We urge Iran to rethink this attitude to reach an agreement based on our offerings and help create space for a diplomatic solution to this issue in the long term,” she said with her German and French colleagues standing next to her.
In response, Iran’s UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said the E3 offer was “full of unrealistic prerequisites”.
“They require matters that must be the result of the negotiations, not the starting point, and they know that these requirements cannot be met,” he told journalists.
Iravani said that E3 should instead be back “a short, unconditional technical extension of the decision 2231”, which will put down a nuclear agreement in 2015, which lifted the UN and Western sanctions against Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program.
Sino-Russian draft
Russia and China have proposed a draft of the UN Security Council’s resolution that would extend the 2015 agreement for six months and urge all parties to resume negotiations immediately. But they have not yet asked for a voting.
The couple, strategic allies in Iran, have removed controversial language from the draft – as they originally suggested on Sunday – which would have blocked E3 from resuming the UN sanctions against Iran.
Iravani described the Russian and Chinese draft resolution as a practical step to give diplomacy more time. A decision needs at least nine votes in favor and no veto from the United States, France, Britain, China or Russia.
The UN Nuclear Inspectors have returned to Iran for the first time since it suspended collaboration with them after attack in June at its nuclear locations by Israel and the United States. But Iran has not yet reached an agreement on how it would resume full work on the international nuclear energy agency.
