The United States, in its response to Iran's comments on Brussels' proposed draft agreement to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran's nuclear program, focused on the topic of economic guarantees. The Politico newspaper reported this on Wednesday, citing a source familiar with the content of Washington's response.
He declined to give any details, but noted that he believes the US response "does not meet Iran's expectations." "So now we have to see whether they [Iranian authorities] think it [the US response] is as good as it can be, or whether they decide to insist on more," the source added.
For his part, an unnamed US official told the newspaper that the US response "contains a lot of words, sentences and paragraphs."
Ned Price, the State Department spokesman, told reporters Wednesday that the United States had finished reviewing Iran's response to the EU's proposals to restore the JCPOA and had sent its thoughts on the matter to Brussels. Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said Tehran had received the US response and began to study it.
Earlier, according to CNN, Iran abandoned its demand to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, an elite force) from the US list of terrorist organizations and remove sanctions under this status in order to restore the nuclear deal.
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Based on materials from TASS