U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted Friday that Iran’s latest proposal in the framework of negotiations to restore the nuclear deal “takes steps backwards” in returning to the pact. “We are not willing to accept an agreement that does not meet our basic requirements and continually tries to introduce extraneous demands that are not relevant to the agreement itself,” Blinken said when asked at a press conference at NATO headquarters. Without wanting to reveal more details, the head of U.S. diplomacy assured that positions had been brought closer in recent weeks with Tehran, but the most recent response to the final document proposed by the European Union, which is acting as mediator, means taking “steps backwards”. Blinken has pointed out that Washington will only reach an agreement if the terms mean an improvement for U.S. national security. “The president (Joe Biden) is focused on that, and what we’re seeing again is that we’re only taking steps backward and not forward,” he lamented. The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, already warned on Monday that Iran’s latest demand does not help to culminate the talks and in fact puts the process “at risk.” The EU-sponsored diplomatic process seeks to restore an agreement that, despite remaining in force, is badly damaged after the U.S. unilaterally withdrew during Donald Trump’s tenure, and Iran breached agreed limits on its nuclear activity. For the EU, the proposal put on the table by Borrell a month ago is a final document that the participants of the nuclear deal must subscribe to or reject, following a 16-month process of talks, mainly in Vienna, to get the United States to return to the Iranian nuclear deal. NN: the agreement from hell. If this goes through AND Irans nuclear program is not stopped millions of people will die from the weapons they are creating. This is all about oil. The lefties much rather buy oil from our enemies then develop domestic resources…. WHY? Because foreign sources are easiler to control. And their is little opposition to foreign oil… The Greeneeeweenis have a license to kill the domestic oil industries of the great democracies…..