After seven days of arduous negotiations continued in Vienna between Iran and the six major powers, the two sides failed to reach a final agreement, and a consensus to extend the interim Geneva agreement for the second time, after an earlier extension last July.
Parties mentioned announced the extension of negotiations aimed at reaching a political agreement after four months and then a final agreement by the end of next June.
Negotiating round ended is the tenth since the signing on a negotiated path extended to ten years the agreement and distributed to a dozen countries and capitals: from Istanbul to Baghdad from Moscow to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and from Geneva to Vienna where he held almost half of the negotiation rounds, then to New York then Muscat then was to return to Vienna, without resolving intractable decade.
It was clear from the start of the tenth round a week ago (18 November) that the dispute revolves around four points, two points concerned parties showed flexibility on them and two Arak reactor facilities and the number and type of centrifuges (enrichment devices), and two points Khalavian, namely: the size of enrichment and schedule to lift the sanctions.
Cross-cutting issue
Size enrichment complex issue, also include how to enrich, frequency and machines used, place and finally control the entire process from the International Atomic Energy Agency, and on this point does not get mentioned above, also said a senior French negotiator in Vienna, who preferred not to be named.↚
The second node that combines diplomats as caused by delaying the completion of the final agreement are required to lift the sanctions imposed on Iran by the signing of the agreement immediately, not gradually also suggests Americans, also Tehran insists on rejecting the principle of "suspension" of sanctions demanding lifting permanently.
Divided sanctions imposed between European and American has been partially lifted under the Geneva Convention and international latter included six issued by the Security Council on the Iran resolutions, including Resolution 1929, issued four years ago and is located under the United Nations Charter, which allows the use of force seventh item if Iran did not cooperate with the international Atomic Energy Agency.
According to sources familiar with the negotiation file that Tehran was focused on the Security Council lifted sanctions as a priority because it would disarm the international legitimacy of other sanctions and convince important countries such as China, India and Turkey to return to the purchase of Iranian oil without venturing outside international law.
"Al-Arabiya" that Paris specifically carry Tehran for failing facing the negotiations, as a prominent French negotiator said that things are complicated "because he wanted the Iranians of the negotiations is to preserve their nuclear program and their ability to enrichment, as they are in return they want the full sanctions on their lift and immediately this in our view is not conducive to a good deal. "
