The 2015 Vienna deal in Iran’s nuclear file is “dead,” US President Joe Biden said in a video widely shared on Twitter, the authenticity of which has not been denied by the White House, according to AFP.

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In this video, which has been shared without specifying the date or location, the US president appears surrounded by bodyguards during an informal discussion with people behind a metal barrier, including a man wearing an Iranian armband, at a gym or multi-purpose indoors .

The decor and the president’s attire appear to be consistent with a campaign rally in early November in California, where Joe Biden came to support a candidate for the House of Representatives.

“President Biden, will you declare the JCPOA (the American acronym for the Vienna Agreement) dead? Can you announce?”, the woman asks the democrat, who shakes his hand, News.ro reports.

“He’s dead, but we won’t report that. It’s a long story,” the American head of state replies.

“We don’t want an agreement with the mullahs (…). They do not represent us,” the interlocutor continues.

“I know they don’t represent you. But they will have nuclear weapons,” says Joe Biden, known for his tendency to stray from elements of official language, especially in informal discussions.

“The president’s comments are completely consistent with what we’ve been saying about the JCPOA, which is not our priority right now,” said White House National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby.

This is how he answered questions about this video in a conversation with reporters on Tuesday.

“We do not expect an agreement to appear in the near future,” he also said, without repeating the same final wording as Joe Biden.

“As far as I know, nobody is questioning the authenticity (of the video) and I don’t think we will investigate it,” he added.

The 2015 Vienna accord offered Iran to lift international sanctions in exchange for guarantees that Tehran would never have nuclear weapons, a goal the Islamic Republic has always denied.

Following the withdrawal of the United States from the deal in 2018 by Donald Trump and the reimposition and strengthening of some US sanctions, Iran has gradually abandoned the commitments it made through the deal.

Joe Biden has promised to try to restore the agreement, but the talks, which began in April 2021 in Vienna, are currently stalled.