Following the report on the resumption of talks between the Islamic Republic and the powers, including the United States, a source in Iran mentioned the condition of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
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Enthusiasm is cooling in Iran:
State Channel Press Tv today (Friday) quoted a source from the Islamic Republic.
That the negotiations on the nuclear deal will not be renewed until US sanctions are lifted.
"Just as the US imposed the sanctions without negotiations, it must now remove them without negotiations," the source said.
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that senior officials from all sides of the nuclear deal - including Iran, the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China - would meet in Vienna next week.
However, the talks between the US representatives and those from the Islamic Republic will be indirect and will be conducted through intermediaries, as reported in the New York Times.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif and his deputy Abbas Arkady have all claimed that there will be no American representative in Vienna.
Earlier today, at a virtual conference, senior officials from Iran, China, Russia, France and the United Kingdom met to discuss the possibility of returning the United States to the nuclear deal.