Tabnak – Despite recent rumors that the European Union has presented a package to Iran on actual measure for safeguarding the 2015 nuclear deal, both Iranian and European high-ranking officials say that no proposal has been yet finalized in this regard.
Maja Kocijancic, the spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, dismissed reports about sending a package of proposals to Iran to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
“Ms. Mogherini has not made any comment about the JCPOA in recent days,” Kocijancic told Euronews Persian service on Saturday.
Kocijancic went on to add that the EU foreign policy chief did not make any comment about the package on the sidelines of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on May 28. “The European Union is trying to adopt objective and precise measures to preserve the JCPOA,” she said.
On Saturday, Iran had also dismissed media reports about having received a package of proposals from the European Union to save the deal, saying the Europeans are holding their final discussions in this regard.
"Up until now, the European Union's package of proposals has not been delivered to the Iranian side and the European Union countries are holding their final consultations to present their proposals," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday.
"Definitely, after receiving this package of proposals, the issue will be announced and assessment of its content will begin," he added.
The Iranian spokesperson said the Islamic Republic would carefully study the EU package and would make a decision on whether to remain in it or leave it “based on national interests."
This comes as Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi had said on June 23 that the Islamic Republic expected the EU to put forward by the end of June its package of proposals to save the JCPOA.
He added that the three European signatories of the nuclear agreement and the EU had promised to offer a package of practical steps that would fulfill Iran’s demands, including on oil sales, payments for its oil and transportation.
US President Donald Trump announced on May 8 that Washington was walking away from the nuclear agreement, which was reached between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - plus Germany in 2015.
Since the US president pulled Washington out of the historic nuclear deal, European countries have been scrambling to ensure that Iran gets enough economic benefits to persuade it to stay in the deal.
