The European Union's foreign policy chief says a possible meeting on resurrecting the Iran nuclear deal could be held 'this week' after Tehran submitted its response to a proposal by the bloc
Before Josep Borrell's comments, an EU official had said the proposal is the bloc's"final offer" to revive the deal.
"A meeting was scheduled to take place in Vienna at the end of last week, but it was not possible," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told a news conference in Santander, Spain on Monday.Borrell also said he hoped the United States would respond positively as early as this week to an EU proposal that aims to save the 2015 deal with Iran.
"There was a proposal from me as coordinator of the negotiations saying 'this is the equilibrium we reached, I don't think we can improve it on one side or the other'...and there was a response from Iran that I considered reasonable," Borrell said in Santander. Analysts say the stakes are high, since failure in the nuclear talks could carry the risk of a fresh regional war, with Israel threatening military action against Iran if diplomacy fails to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapons capability.Earlier on Monday, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani accused the US of "procrastinating" in the negotiations.