This is intercepted.

An Ali Radeb, a senior editor with the intercept.

Up until recently, the prospects for reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal seemed dead in the

water.

But now there's talked the negotiators might be close to striking a new accord to Kirby

Iran's nuclear program.

This week though, White House Press Secretary Jen Saki suggested that there might yet be

obstacles to an agreement.

The President will re-enter the deal if it's in our national security interests and both

ourselves and our allies are prepared to conclude a strong agreement if Iran is prepared

to do the same.

What we've seen however is that Iran has raised a number of issues that is nothing to do

with the mutual compliance under the nuclear deal.

And that is where our focus and our objective is.

So we would encourage Iran to focus on the deal negotiated in Vienna rather than seeking

to open issues outside the Vienna context or casting blame of course on others for a pause

in the talk.

She was making an apparent reference to what has become one of the major sticking points

in the talks.

The U.S.' designation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC as a terrorist organization.

After withdrawing from the Obama-Aran nuclear deal, the Trump administration kept ramping

up its attacks on Iran.

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