(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Senior Western officials voiced doubts about reviving the 2015
Iran nuclear deal on Thursday, with the European Union saying it
'might not make it over the finishing line' and a U.S. official
saying the odds had lengthened after this week's failed talks,
Trend reports citing
Reuters .
The U.N. Security Council met to discuss Iran one day after
indirect U.S.-Iran talks ended in Doha with no sign of progress on
resurrecting the pact under which Tehran limited its nuclear
program in return for relief from U.S., U.N. and EU sanctions.
'I am concerned that we might not make it over the finishing
line. My message is: Seize this opportunity to conclude the deal,
based on the text that is on the table,' European Union Ambassador
to the United Nations Olof Skoog said.
The EU coordinates the talks on resurrecting the agreement,
which then U.S. President Donald Trump reneged on in 2018 and
restored harsh U.S. sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran to start
violating its nuclear restrictions about a year later.
'The prospects for a deal after Doha are worse than they were
before Doha and they will be getting worse by the day,' the senior
U.S. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
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