France, Britain and Germany warned Russia on Saturday that the demands to have its trade guaranteed with Iran risked the collapse of an almost-completed nuclear deal.
The EU members of the UN atomic agency’s Board of Governors have issued a statement in support of preserving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA and the lifting of anti-Tehran sanctions.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has dismissed as "irrelevant" Russian demands for guarantees that new sanctions linked to Ukraine will not affect Moscow's rights under a reworked Iran nuclear deal.
New US sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, are not related to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and should not have any impact on a potential revival of the landmark agreement, a US State Department spokesperson says.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told the UN Secretary General that significant progress has been made in the Vienna talks over the revival of the Iran nuclear deal.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says Tehran and the P4+1 group are very close to reaching a good deal in Vienna but for this to happen, the other sides should show genuine flexibility.
An advisor to the Iranian delegation in Vienna says some issues still remain on the negotiating table pending a decision by the United States, and that a deal will be at hand if the Western parties recognize Iran’s red lines and stop brining up irrelevant topics.
A former Iranian lawmaker says Tehran is seeking a “good agreement” during the Vienna talks that would serve the interests of its nation, and that it will never accept a “win-lose agreement” sought by the Israeli regime.
The United States has announced that "substantial progress" during negotiations in Vienna to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal has been made, deeming an agreement possible within days if Iran "shows seriousness" on the matter. Iran says the ball is in the court of the United States, and that Washington must remove the anti-Tehran sanctions.
Nearly 200 House Republicans have warned President Joe Biden any nuclear deal with Iran without Congress' approval "will meet the same fate" as the 2015 agreement by President Barack Obama later abandoned by President Donald Trump.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Islamic republic is not after nuclear weapons. He says Iran seeks “peaceful benefits of nuclear energy”, but enemies do not want the Iranian nation to achieve this “great scientific progress”.
More than one third of American voters would like to have a binding nuclear agreement with Tehran, twice as many as those who would prefer a nonbinding deal, as in 2015, according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll out on Wednesday.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says the US and Europe have failed the test of fulfilling their commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA.
The Russian embassy in Tehran has rejected comments by former Iranian MP Heshmatollah Falahat Piasheh, accusing Russia’s chief negotiator Mikhail Ulyanov of playing a negative role in the Vienna talks.
An international affairs analyst says the United States’ lack of will for a decision to return to the 2015 nuclear deal is fed by President Joe Biden’s attempt to get the pass back to the accord free of charge.
China says Iran has put forward a package of proposals in the Vienna talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA.
Tehran’s ambassador to Moscow says Iran is seeking guarantees during the talks in Vienna that no sanctions will be re-imposed on the country with a future change of administration in the United States.
Russia and Britain share the view that the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action must be implemented fully, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday during a joint press conference with his British counterpart in Moscow.
The White House has reached out at all levels to members of US Congress as well as their staff to discuss Washington’s approach to Iran, an American diplomat confirms. It comes after dozens of senators from the Republican Party called on the administration to relay the terms of any new deal with Tehran to the Congress for approval.
Washington believes it has until the end of February to salvage the Iran nuclear agreement, otherwise the US will have to change track and launch aggressive efforts to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to three administration officials. Iran has repeatedly said it will not accept any deadline, while seeking a good and prompt agreement.
Journalists have flocked back to the Palais Hotel Coburg in Vienna, where negotiators from Iran and the P4+1 group of states have gathered for a new round of talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
European diplomats are optimistic about efforts by Iran and the US to close remaining differences on steps to revive the 2015 nuclear deal in the near future, EU high representative for foreign affairs Josep Borrell says.
A source close to the Iranian negotiating team in Vienna says the delegation has consulted and coordinated with the highest-ranking decision makers of the Iranian establishment and has a clear agenda for talks in four main fields.
