“The possibility to strike a deal and return to JCPOA is shrinking. But we still can do it with an extra effort,” Josep Borrell wrote on Twitter, referring to the nuclear deal by its initials.
“As coordinator, I stand ready any time to facilitate a solution to the latest outstanding issues.”
Negotiations to restore the pact have been deadlocked since stalling in March. A key sticking point is Tehran’s demand rejected by Washington — that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideological arm of the Iranian military, be removed from a US terrorism blacklist.
Borrell’s tweet came after he spoke Friday with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who warned Western nations against taking “political action” against Iran at next week’s meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency. READ MORE
