Senior officials from Iran, the United States, France, Russia and other countries will meet in the Austrian capital, in what appears to be President Biden's first serious step towards restoring the 2015 nuclear deal.
Iranian President Rouhani
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Negotiations for the return of the Iranian nuclear deal in 2015 will take place among all parties in Vienna next week, Western diplomats said today (Friday).
This is the first serious effort to salvage the agreement since President Biden took office.
Senior officials from all sides in the agreement: Iran, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China, and senior U.S. officials will be part of the gathering in the Austrian capital. However, there will be no direct talks for the time being between U.S. and Iranian officials, Wall Street officials said. Journal. "
In May 2018, the US withdrew from the nuclear deal signed in 2015. President Biden said he wanted the US to return to the same deal, the one that placed strict but temporary restrictions on Iranian nuclear activity, in exchange for suspending international sanctions on Tehran.
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.
According to the EU, "the participants discussed how to ensure full and effective implementation of the agreement by all parties."
The conference was chaired by diplomat Enrique More, as the representative of the Union's High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and Defense Joseph Burrell.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement to Washington: "We obviously welcome the move, because it is a positive step. It has been clear to us for weeks that we are ready to return to meeting the nuclear deal with Iran, if Iran acts the same way."
He added that Washington is ready to do so through a "series of preliminary reciprocal steps".
Secretary of State in Linken: "We will strengthen the nuclear agreement with Iran" // Archive photo: Reuters
Earlier this week, the Politico reported that the US administration had submitted a proposal to Iran that Tehran reduce uranium enrichment and the installation of advanced centrifuges in exchange for easing economic sanctions on the country.
Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported yesterday that Iran has begun enriching uranium in the fourth cluster of advanced centrifuges at the Natanz underground enrichment plant.