TEHRAN — Iran’s chief negotiator was to fly back to
Vienna Sunday evening following consultations in Tehran, state media reported,
as talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal reached a critical stage.
اضافة اعلان
Ali Bagheri “will return to Vienna this
evening with clear instructions to pursue the negotiations with the aim of
solving problems in order to reach an agreement”, IRNA news agency reported.
The talks to restore the agreement known
formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action involve Iran as well as
Britain, China,
France, Germany and Russia directly, and the United States
indirectly.
On Saturday Iranian Foreign Minister
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Tehran was studying a rough draft of a deal to revive the
nuclear deal.
Iran is “seriously reviewing (the) draft of
the agreement”, Amir-Abdollahian said on Twitter, adding he had spoken by phone
with EU foreign policy chief
Josep Borrel who is coordinating the Vienna talks.
“Our red lines are made clear to western
parties,” the Iranian foreign minister said, adding that Tehran is “ready to
immediately conclude a good deal, should they show real will”.
The 2015 deal gave Iran sanctions relief in
exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, but the US unilaterally withdrew
from it in 2018 under then-president
Donald Trump and re-imposed heavy economic
sanctions. That prompted Iran to begin rolling back on its own commitments.
The Vienna talks seek to return the
US to the
agreement, notably through the lifting of sanctions, and to restore Iran’s
compliance with its own commitments.
Tehran says it wants to verify the removal of
sanctions and get guarantees that the United States will not repeat its
withdrawal from the agreement.
In recent days, all sides have said the
talks have
reached a critical stage.
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