A member of the Iranian parliament’s presiding board has quoted Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdolalhain as saying that Iran will continue the Vienna talks until it obtains effective guarantees from the other sides.
A group of 33 Republican senators have warned US President Joe Biden that they would work to thwart implementation of any new Iran nuclear agreement if his government did not allow Congress to review and vote on its terms.
US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley on Sunday said he would soon return to Austria’s capital for the next round of negotiations aimed at salvaging the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, insisting it could still be revived.
The lead US negotiator in the Vienna talks and representatives from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC), Egypt and Jordan have discussed ongoing nuclear negotiations aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal.
A high-ranking Iranian member of parliament says all signs and the cards in Iran’s hands show the condition is right for a good and win-win deal in the Vienna talks.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution's envoy to Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili has written a letter to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamanei calling for Tehran to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal and enrich uranium to over 90% purity before holding direct talks with the United States, an informed source has said.
The eighth round of talks between Iran and the P4+1 group in the Austrian capital Vienna is paused for a week from Saturday, as negotiators acknowledge that the latest negotiations were another step forward.
Russia and France share close views on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or the Iran nuclear deal, the Kremlin announced in a statement following a call between the two countries’ presidents, Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron.
Russia’s representative to international organizations in Vienna has said his remarks regarding the Vienna talks have been distorted by Bloomberg news agency.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the Islamic Republic has not held direct talks with the United States in the Austrian capital Vienna despite repeated requests from Washington.
Iran’s nuclear chief has called for the development of nuclear power plants for access to clean energy, saying “this is a national strategy and a priority” of Iran.
The United States is unlikely to strike an agreement with Iran to save the 2015 nuclear deal unless Tehran releases four American citizens Washington claims it is holding hostage, the lead US negotiator says. Iran has categorically rejected any US preconditions for its return to the landmark agreement.
An high-ranking Iranian parliamentarian says the reason why negotiations in Vienna are moving at a snail’s pace is that the US wants to take the least possible action with regards to the lifting of anti-Tehran sanctions.
US Senator Chris Murphy has criticized former President Donald Trump for the current situation over Iran nuclear programme. The top diplomat has called the former administration’s decision to pull Washington out of the agreement as ”one of the dumbest, most dangerous foreign policy decisions of the last fifty years”.
The 26th day of talks between Iran and the P4+1 group of countries over removing sanctions against Tehran began with a meeting between top Iranian negotiator Ali Bagheri and coordinator of the JCPOA’s Joint Commission Enrique Mora.
A source close to the Iranian negotiating team in the Vienna talks has rejected a foreign news outlet’s claim that there is talk of an interim agreement between Iran and the P4+1 group in Vienna.
The nuclear negotiations with Iran in Vienna are moving in the right direction and a final agreement may be within reach, a senior European Union official says.
Russia has discussed a possible interim nuclear agreement with Iran in recent weeks. It would involve limited sanctions relief in return for reimposing some restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to several US officials. Iran has so far rejected the proposal presented by Russia, the sources added.
The spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says Tehran and Moscow held talks on the expansion of strategic relations between the two sides in the field of nuclear technology during the Iranian president’s trip to Moscow.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the United States as well as the European parties to the nuclear deal – France, Germany and the UK – have failed to fulfill their obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Tehran wants a guarantee that Washington won’t unilaterally quit the nuclear deal again, but the US administration can’t provide such kind of “hard and fast guarantee”.
Iran’s negotiating team in the Vienna talks has held a meeting with the delegations of the European troika in Vienna as the 8th round of negotiations resumes with the aim of removing sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
