TEHRAN— While Iran committed to the deadline set by the European Union and sent its concluding decision to the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday, the United States has not yet announced what its response will be.

On Thursday night, a European diplomat told a prominent American journalist that the EU is expecting to receive Washington’s response “any moment now.”

However, as quoted by Laura Rozen, the European official suggested that the response could be received Friday.

In an article published in Politico on Friday, Barbara Slavin, Director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, said, “There are many reasons why Iranian officials have been hesitant about whether to accept a new European Union proposal for reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).”

She then noted, “The dominant political faction in Iran is full of officials who opposed the plan and saw their views vindicated when the United States withdrew from the deal in 2018 — while Iran was in full compliance. And they are understandably wary of trusting the promises of another U.S. administration.”

What Slavin says is also true about the U.S. political system. Take Senator Jim Risch for example. A ranking member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Risch is one of the main opponents of reviving the JCPOA.

In a series of false claims, Risch claimed that the text of the agreement could be threatening to Washington’s allies.

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