Vienna Talks Fail to Reach Agreement on Iran Nuclear Program

by mobanmarket
on October 12, 2020

: Talks extended for for seven additional months

As indicated in earlier reporting (see below), Iran and the P5+1 nations failed to finalized a nuclear and sanctions relief agreement after six days of talks in Vienna but have agreed to extend the dialogue and negotiation process until July of 2015.

According to foreign policy analyst Jasmin Ramsey:

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Reporting for Buzzfeed, journalist Rosie Gray adds:

As Monday’s deadline arrived, it appears that high-level talks in Vienna will not result with a signed nuclear and sanctions-relief agreement between Iran and other nations.

However, news agencies are reporting that the final business between Iran negotiators and those from the P5+1 nations—which include the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China—will be to schedule another meeting next month in hopes of finalizing a deal before the end of the year.

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According to Reuters:

All sides have acknowledged that enormous progress has been made, but finalizing the deal means confronting some of the worrisome domestic politics that each nation—though especially the United States—brings to the table. With long-held worries that members of Congress would fulfill threats to torpedo the deal, the White House—facing the prospect of Republican majorities in both the House and Senate come January—is running out of room to finalize the deal.

As Paul Pillar, an ex-CIA analyst and commentator on foreign policy, wrote over the weekend, the failure to reach and finalize an agreement could have grave consequences:

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