Iran’s lead negotiator at the negotiations in the Austrian capital to remove the US sanctions says good progress has been made in Vienna this week, noting that the high-ranking talks will continue after a short break.
In a tweet on Friday morning, Ali Bagheri Kani said he met with EU deputy foreign policy chief Enrique Mora, who coordinates the Vienna talks, on Thursday, after consultations with other delegations.
Iran and the five remaining parties to the nuclear agreement of 2015 resumed talks in Vienna on November 29 after a five-month pause, marking the first round of negotiations under President Ebrahim Raeisi’s administration and the seventh overall.
The Islamic Republic maintains that its presence at the talks is intended to have the US sanctions removed, which would, in turn, secure a US return to the nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The US, which is not allowed to directly participate in the talks as a result of its 2018 withdrawal from the JCPOA, claims that it is willing to undo the withdrawal and repeal its “maximum pressure” policy against Iran.
Iran argues that the onus is on Washington to return to the nuclear deal after removing its illegal sanctions and offering guarantees that it will not exit the pact again.
