Tehran under pressure as Iran nuclear deal reaches crunch point

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% :His statement came hours after the Élysée issued a statement saying the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, had spoken by phone and agreed that, "Iran must fully comply with its nuclear responsibilities".
49% : "They (Iran) have a very clear choice, either they unleash a serious crisis in the next few days ... or they accept an agreement that respects the interests of all the parties."
48% : Referring to the lifting of sanctions, Amir-Abdollahian said: "Iran wants these talks to lead to the complete lifting of sanctions."
46% : A breakthrough in the 2015 nuclear deal talks could be just days away, but key differences remainIran has reached a moment of truth and must decide in days, not weeks, whether to accept the text of a nuclear deal accepted by China, Russia, European powers and the US, the French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, has said.
41% : His claim that the text was now agreed, not just between western powers, but also Russia and China, is designed to put maximum pressure on Iran to accept the attempt to revive its landmark nuclear deal, by which it agreed to limit nuclear activity in return for the lifting of some sanctions.
41% : Neither ambassador's remarks quite tallied with claims that Russia and China had endorsed the text of the accord, and the claims that the talks have only days left may be construed by Iran as another attempt to force them to accept the deal.
39% : But the Biden administration only wants to lift the economic sanctions that were "imposed" on Iran during the Trump era, calling the difference between the two sides "a challenge."
38% : Such a statement would not have any legal force, but has symbolic value for Iran as it tries to sell the deal internally.
30% : The 2015 deal began to unravel in 2018 when Donald Trump withdrew the US and reimposed sanctions on Iran, which then began breaching the accord's limits on its uranium enrichment.

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