Iran's nuclear achievements "winning card" in negotiations: official
Jul 31, 2022
Tehran (Iran), July 31: Iran's achievements in the nuclear industry is a leverage for the Iranian negotiators in the talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, Pejman Shirmardi, deputy of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said on Saturday.
The achievements of the AEOI, including the production of 60-percent enriched uranium and the launch of IR-6 centrifuges, are the "winning card" of the Iranian negotiating team, Shirmardi told the official IRNA news agency.
The biggest fear of the West is the indigenization of nuclear science in Iran, he said, warning that "any immature actions" against Iran's nuclear industry will be responded to by the Islamic republic.
The withdrawal of Washington from the nuclear pact, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in May 2018 and reimposition of unilateral sanctions on Iran, and the latter's retaliatory moves, drove the deal almost to the brinks of collapse.
Talks to revive the deal began in April 2021 in the Austrian capital Vienna but were suspended in March this year because of political differences between Tehran and Washington.
Source: Xinhua
