Today, Sunday, the adviser to the Iranian negotiating delegation in Vienna, Muhammad Marandi, considered that the internal conflict in Washington is impeding reaching an agreement in Vienna.


However, he believed that the repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict would eventually force the United States to reach an agreement with his country.

In statements to IRNA, Marandi added that Washington had not taken the necessary political decision to reach a reasonable agreement in the Austrian capital.

He reiterated that various issues such as the need for the West to take basic measures to verify and guarantee agreements, the abolition of sanctions, and the removal of Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations "are among the main factors in the sudden halt of negotiations by the United States."

Over the past weeks, the two sides have been exchanging blame for not reaching an agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and the West and throwing the ball into the other's court.

While Washington announced that if Iran wants to ease sanctions beyond what is stipulated in the nuclear agreement, in a clear indication of excluding the Revolutionary Guards from the American list of terrorism, it must address American concerns beyond those addressed in this agreement. 

Tehran has confirmed more than once that it adheres to the demand to lift the embargo imposed on those forces that enjoy great power in the country.

The issue of the IRGC had surfaced weeks ago, forming a difficult obstacle for negotiators, especially since the administration of US President Joe Biden is under extreme pressure from Congress not to remove IRGC from the US terror list.

The file of some sanctions also still constitutes one of the obstacles to reaching a final agreement between Iran, the three European countries (France, Britain, and Germany), Russia and China, and the United States, which participated in the marathon negotiations that began in April last year (2021) in the Austrian capital.