BERLIN (Dispatches) — The European diplomat chairing talks between Iran and the remaining signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal says negotiations in Vienna will resume Thursday.
Enrique Mora said Wednesday on Twitter that the parties to the 2015 Vienna accord will meet in the Austrian capital after consulting with their governments in recent days.
The United States withdrew from the agreement in 2018 under former U.S. President Donald Trump. His successor Joe Biden has indicated that the U.S. is willing to return but he is not showing any break with the wrong policies of the former government.
Russia’s top representative expressed hope that an agreement could eventually be reached at the talks.
Mikhail Ulyanov tweeted that contacts with the United States and Iran “prove that both sides are very serious” about reviving the deal, though he added that “their visions of relevant ways and means differ.”
“The task of the negotiators is to overcome these differences. It’s feasible in the light of unity of purpose,” he said.
Iran’s top negotiator Ali Baqeri Kani has said the ball is in U.S. court to remove its sanctions in order to reach a breakthrough.
Iran has provided the five remaining parties to the JCPOA with draft documents detailing its proposals and positions on the removal of the U.S. sanctions and the nuclear steps that should be taken by Iran.