The continuation of the JCPOA Joint Commission negotiations was postponed until next week.

The fifth round of talks between political representatives of the countries involved in the 2015 nuclear deal has dragged on longer than expected. The talks are said to have been postponed until June 10. The fifth round was referred to as the final round.

The fifth round of negotiations of the Joint Commission on the JCPOA is scheduled to continue in Vienna on Thursday, June 10. The news of the postponement of the continuation of these negotiations was reported to the media by two informed sources on Wednesday, June 2 (June 11).

Previously, Russian representative Mikhail Ulyanov had announced that all participants in the JCPOA Joint Commission meeting viewed the fifth round of talks as the final round.

Now the news is less optimistic. On Wednesday, June 1, Hassan Rouhani even announced at a cabinet meeting that the fundamental issues between Iran and the United States have been resolved.

This comes at a time when Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs and the head of the Iranian delegation in the JCPOA negotiations, has expressed doubts about reaching an agreement before Iran’s presidential elections, which will be held on June 18.

It is said that the reason for postponing the continuation of the fifth round of negotiations of the Joint Commission of the JCPOA in Vienna is a report published on Monday by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Rafael Grossi, the IAEA's Secretary General, announced that the Islamic Republic has not yet provided the Agency with sufficient information regarding uranium traces at two undeclared sites.

Following the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2018, the Islamic Republic of Iran also gradually reduced its commitments to the JCPOA.

Although current US President Joe Biden favors the US returning to the nuclear deal, he has made the lifting of sanctions on Iran conditional on Iran returning to its commitments under the JCPOA and negotiating on Iran's missile program and the Islamic Republic's destabilizing role in the region.

After the attack on the Natanz nuclear facility, the Islamic Republic of Iran has increased uranium enrichment to 60%, which has only military use.

Source: DW