VIENNA — The long-awaited resumption of international
talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will take place Monday
afternoon, a diplomatic source said.
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The talks between the remaining partners to the deal — Iran,
China, Russia, Germany, France and the UK — will restart at around 2pm local
time, the European diplomat told AFP on Sunday.
The US will also send a delegation headed by Washington's
Special Envoy for Iran, Rob Malley, which will participate in the talks
indirectly.
Russia's ambassador to the UN in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov had
said this week that "informal meetings" between the participants were
expected ahead of the formal talks beginning in the Austrian capital's Palais
Coburg hotel.
Ulyanov noted that Monday would mark more than five months
since the talks were suspended, "a very protracted pause".
"The talks can't last forever. There is the obvious
need to speed up the process," Ulyanov tweeted on Saturday.
On Saturday Iranian media reported that the country's chief
nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri had arrived in Vienna, days after visiting
Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
The 2015 deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action, or JCPOA, was designed to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear arsenal
by imposing strict limits on its nuclear program in return for the lifting of
some sanctions.
But it untraveled in 2018 when then president Donald Trump
unilaterally withdrew the US from the accord.
A year later Iran began retaliating by rolling back its
nuclear-related commitments, for example breaching the limits laid down in the
accord on its stockpile of enriched uranium.
Trump's successor Joe Biden has said he wants the US to
return to the accord but Washington has accused Iran of dragging its feet and
making "radical" demands.
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