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US claims Iran "killed" possibility of "quick" return to 2015 nuclear deal

MADRID, 4 Ene.

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US claims Iran "killed" possibility of "quick" return to 2015 nuclear deal

MADRID, 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The US government has claimed that Iran "killed" the possibility of a "quick" return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, including a refusal in September to sign a pact "that was basically finalized".

"Since then, the nuclear agreement has not been on the agenda. It has not been on the agenda for months. It has not been our focus," said the spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, during his daily press conference .

"Since September especially, our focus has been to position ourselves in favor of the fundamental freedoms of the Iranian people and to confront Iran's growing military alliance with Russia and its support for the Russian war in Ukraine," he said.

Despite this, Price has stressed that "what is very much alive is the total commitment of the president (American, Joe) Biden to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. "We continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this objective , but we have always made it clear that we are not going to withdraw options from the table," he argued.

Likewise, he has stated that Washington "always maintains an intense and constant discussion with Israel about Iran, including the Iranian nuclear program. "There is no greater defender of Israel's security than President Biden," he stressed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured on Tuesday that his government would "openly" oppose its reactivation, despite international efforts to close the dispute and restore the historic pact, damaged by the US decision. to withdraw unilaterally in 2018.

Price's words come after the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Naser Kanani, said on Monday that Tehran is "fully prepared" to achieve the revival of the agreement and stressed that "the ball is in the court of the West." Thus, he said that to achieve this, "political decisions" are necessary on the part of Western countries, to which he asked "a constructive and realistic position."