Rear Admiral John Kirby. File photoWASHINGTON, Sep 24The US will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon and still sees diplomacy and negotiations as the best way to achieve its goal. John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator at the White House National Security Council, said Saturday in an interview with Fox News. «We will not let Iran get a nuclear weapon,» he said. back to a deal,” Kirby added. Kirby clarified that Washington still sees diplomacy and negotiation as the best way to reach an agreement with Tehran.The President of Iran told how the United States is bringing countries closer In 2015, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Russia, the United States, France and Iran concluded a nuclear deal — a JCPOA on the Iranian nuclear program, which involved the lifting of sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, the United States under Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and reinstated sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a phased reduction in its obligations under the agreement, abandoning restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and the level of uranium enrichment. As a result of negotiations to renew the JCPOA and lift Washington's sanctions against Tehran in Vienna in December 2021, the parties reached an agreement on two projects agreements, in which the European side included the positions of Iran. The Iranian side assessed the talks as successful, but the US State Department considered the progress in Vienna as modest, urging Tehran to take the issue seriously. With the return of the representatives of the parties to their capitals at the end of March 2022, the negotiations were suspended, for which the Iranian Foreign Ministry blamed the American administration. The next round of negotiations on the JCPOA took place in Doha on June 29-30. On August 22, Iran sent the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell its response on the proposed text of the draft agreement on the restoration of the Iranian nuclear deal, and also expressed its opinion on the «remaining issues» in the negotiations. The EU called Iran's response to the nuclear deal proposal constructive and said it was consulting with the United States on further steps. On August 24, the Iranian side received a response from the United States. U.S. government comments are under consideration. Last week, U.S. First Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the U.S. believes negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal have stalled because of Iran's «unacceptable» stance, but it is still in American interests to restore the deal. A little earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stressed that Tehran's recent response, according to Washington, is throwing negotiations on this topic back, which makes it unlikely that an agreement will be reached in the near future. .jpg» />The US Congress criticized the Iranian President's visit to New York
