Iran says it has submitted a “fair” proposal for its nuclear programme to avoid new sanctions

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said helium has submitted to European powers a “fair and balanced” connection connected Tehran’s atomic programme to forestall the re-imposition of UN sanctions connected the Islamic Republic.

Iran “presents a connection that is creative, just and balanced, responsive to existent concerns and mutually beneficial,” Araghchi wrote successful X precocious past night.

He added that the connection was presented yesterday to the United Kingdom, France and Germany, a radical of countries known arsenic the E3, arsenic good arsenic the European Union.

“The implementation of this thought tin beryllium done rapidly and let the respective reddish lines to beryllium reconciled to forestall a crisis,” helium warned, assessing that “Iran cannot beryllium the lone liable actor.”

The Iranian minister’s connection came arsenic the UN Security Council is expected, barring the improbable event, to springiness the greenish airy contiguous to reimpose sanctions against Tehran. According to diplomatic sources, Iran fails to stitchery the 9 votes needed to support the presumption quo and forestall the re-imposition of sanctions by the extremity of the month.

“What the Europeans are doing is politically biased and politically motivated…They are making a mistake astatine assorted levels by trying to usage the mechanics embedded successful the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) successful the incorrect way,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sayyid Khatibzadeh told reporters successful Geneva today. He said each options are connected the array if diplomacy fails. “If the Europeans travel this path, they are expanding the unpredictability to the maximum and are liable … for immoderate imaginable aboriginal risk,” helium said.

The E3 countries are among those that signed the 2015 planetary statement (JCPOA) that provided for restrictions connected Iranian atomic activities successful speech for the lifting of sanctions against Tehran. This statement was intended to forestall Iran from acquiring atomic weapons, a extremity that Western powers and its sworn force Israel person agelong suspected it is pursuing, thing Tehran denies.