Iran abandons the demanded "red line" in the negotiations of the nuclear agreement, according to CNN

MADRID, 20 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A senior official of the Joe Biden Administration has assured that Iran has abandoned the demanded "red line" that supposed a conflict in the negotiations of the nuclear agreement, for which the parties would be approaching the return of the pact, as the CNN network.

Iran would not have demanded -- at this point in the negotiations -- that the United States remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations maintained by the Biden State Department. It would also have abandoned the requests for exclusion from the list of companies linked to the CRGI.

According to the official contacted by the US channel, Tehran "rules out" these demands from "the current version of the text." "So, if we are closer to an agreement, that is why," he assured.

In any case, the official has indicated that, "although an agreement is now closer than it was two weeks ago, the result remains uncertain as there are some gaps."

In this sense, he has indicated that "Biden will only approve an agreement that satisfies the national security interests" of the United States. Therefore, "the president has been firm and consistent that he would not lift the terrorism designation of the CRGI."

Although progress may be slow, another senior official has confirmed to CNN that there appears to be more momentum now than in the past year.

The spokesman for the United States Department of State, Ned Price, positively assessed on Tuesday the European Union's plan to resume the nuclear agreement with Iran. Although the US has so far refused to comment in detail on the proposal, Price said the big issues in reviving the 2015 international nuclear deal have been "largely resolved," Bloomberg reported.

On Monday, the Iranian government sent its response to Borrell's proposal, showing optimism about the options for the agreement to materialize. Iran's Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian, had explained that he saw a rapprochement "in the coming days" as feasible "if the United States shows a realistic approach and flexibility."