The White House spokeswoman says the United States prefers diplomacy with Tehran in dealing with the Iran nuclear deal, but if that fails, Washington is willing to consider other options. Jen Psaki also said there has been progress in Vienna talks.
An informed source has said that diplomats in Vienna have bridged many of their differences in the sanctions removal negotiations and that delegations of Iran and the P4+1 group are now discussing how to implement and sequence a possible agreement.
An agreement with Iran could be achieved "in the coming weeks" due to a "better atmosphere" in Vienna, where negotiations are currently being held, European Union's foreign affairs representative Josep Borrell announced on Friday.
Top negotiators of Iran and the three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal are briefly leaving Vienna for their respective capitals, while expert-level negotiations continue in the Austrian capital.
A senior Russian diplomat criticizes “regrettable” and “senseless” attempts by opponents of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to sabotage the diplomatic process that is making headway in Vienna with the aim of reviving the embattled accord.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has criticized former President Donald Trump for the current situation over Iran’s nuclear programme. The top diplomat has called Trump’s move to pull Washington out of the Iran nuclear dal as ”one of the worst decisions made in recent American foreign policy”.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has reiterated that his administration will not tie efforts to neuter sanctions on the Islamic Republic to the nuclear talks.
Negotiators between Tehran and the world powers have just weeks, not months, to reach an agreement on rescuing the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the US State Department has announced. Iran has rejected US officials’ remarks about a deadline for reaching an agreement and stressed the country is only after a good agreement.
A senior Iranian parliamentarian says Tehran is not seeking an “interim” agreement in the talks in Vienna with the P4+1 states, but it is “reviewing” the opposite side’s proposal for such a deal.
The Vienna negotiations aimed at reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) are speeding up and the chances for reaching a solution have increased, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov says.
A political analyst has said inviting South Korea to the Vienna was a mistake because it implied that the freezing of Iranian assets by the US was legal while that is not the case under international law.
A source close to Iran’s negotiating team in Vienna has denied a report that the country and the P4+1 group of countries gave reached a 2-year deal regarding the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
Experts from the Islamic Republic of Iran and representatives of the P4+1 group met today (Saturday) as part of the eighth round of Vienna talks on lifting anti-Tehran sanctions.
As the new round negotiations on the removal of US sanctions against Iran continues in Vienna, a Russian diplomat says all participants recognize that some progress is being made towards an agreement on restoration of the 2015 nuclear deal.
Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations has reacted to an article published by the Wall Street Journal which argues in favor of American military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.
Progress has been made regarding the nuclear negotiations in Vienna although time is running out, French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday.
