(ANSA-AFP) - VIENNA, NOV 29 - Negotiations on the Iranian nuclear file resume in Vienna after an interruption of more than five months. This was announced by the EU. "In Vienna, JCPOA Joint Commission ... just started", tweeted the spokesman of the EU delegation, Alain Georges Matton, using the acronym of the international agreement signed in 2015 which imposed severe restrictions on the Tehran program in exchange for the reduction of sanctions. In addition to Iran, the 5 + 1 countries (USA, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France plus Germany) participate in the talks, the same one that in 2015 concluded the historic agreement that harnessed the nuclear program of Tehran in exchange for a progressive elimination of the sanctions . Agreement then lapsed after Trump's America unilaterally broke it in 2018.
Iran is "firmly determined" to reach an agreement that saves the 2015 agreement on Tehran's nuclear program, said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh Iran, who however added that "if the US come to Vienna for the nuclear talks with the aim of removing sanctions may seize the opportunity to return to the agreement ".
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