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2.7 Iran ‘gives assurances Vienna nuclear deal talks will restart in early September’
Iran has given assurances that it is ready to resume the suspended Vienna talks to revive the nuclear deal as soon as early September, AFP and dpa reported on August 7, citing a senior EU official who spoke to Iranian officials.
The official reportedly said that the EU's negotiator on the matter, Enrique Mora, while attending the swearing-in of new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran last week, spoke with the Iranian official designated to lead the talks, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
The EU official said Amir-Abdollahian has been lined up to be the new foreign minister in Raisi's cabinet, but the move has not yet been announced.
The Iranians said they want to get back to the negotiating table "as soon as possible—not just for talks but to achieve an agreement. They want a success," the EU official was quoted as saying.
The EU official also told the news agencies that it was not clear whether the nuclear talks would remain under the responsibility of the Iranian Foreign Ministry or be taken over by Iran's National Security Council or another body. The nuclear deal was signed by the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China, as well as Iran, in 2015 to provide an easing of sanctions against Tehran in return for curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme. Former US president Donald Trump unilaterally pulled out of the deal in 2018 and imposed swingeing sanctions on the Iranians.
Iran's supreme leader on July 28 raised concerns that Washington has given no guarantee that should Tehran agree to a revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, the US will not at some point abandon the pact again.
On July 29, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the nuclear talks with Iran "cannot go on indefinitely" but that Washington was "fully prepared" to continue negotiations.
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