"Although IAEA officials were denied access to the last week's closed-door meeting of the representatives of these states, the Agency's leadership believes the meeting had a highly positive impact because the sides had exchanged their proposals intended to render full transparency to Iranian nuclear programs and convince Tehran to drop its uranium enrichment aspirations and ratify the Additional Protocol to the Nonproliferation Treaty," the source said.
According to him, "the preceding Vienna meeting showed that the talks were still at an early stage. However, several more rounds of talks will be held before the IAEA Board of Governors, scheduled for November 25, considers Iranian nuclear programs."
The source said that "last week's meeting in Vienna resulted in Iran's refusal to freeze its nuclear programs and uranium enrichment projects under pressure of the three EU member states. Iranian representatives even called these proposals unbalanced and unfair toward their country. However, there is some time left until November 25, and new rounds of talks between Berlin, Paris, and London on the one hand, offering peaceful nuclear technology in return for the closure of uranium enrichment projects, and Iran on the other might be more successful in reaching an agreement about the Iranian nuclear file."
"Irrespective of [the result of] the Vienna talks, the U.S. holds the same view: Washington is still assured that Iran has a hidden nuclear weapons agenda in defiance of the basic provisions of the Nonproliferation Treaty. Accordingly, the Americans say, Iran's nuclear file should be submitted to the Security Council that has an authority to impose sanctions on Tehran," the source underscored.
"Although the U.S. is skeptical, the EU hopes to give Iran the last chance to have its nuclear file closed at the coming sessions of the IAEA Board of Governors," the source also said.
