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The United States urges Moscow and Tehran to take the "decisions" needed to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, putting the ball squarely in their camp as last-minute Russian demands threatened to derail the process. "We remain confident that we can achieve mutual return to compliance in fairly short order" if decisions are "made in places like Tehran and Moscow," State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells reporters during a briefing after the European Union announced a pause in negotiations. SOUNDBITE
During a press conference in Berlin, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that he believes reviving the Iran nuclear deal is still possible after "modest progress" in talks. SOUNDBITE of Antony Blinken
Diplomats meeting in Vienna have made "one step forward" in efforts to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal but the outcome "was still not enough", Iran's deputy foreign minister says. SOUNDBITE
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow during a visit aimed at keeping the landmark 2015 nuclear deal alive in the wake of US President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out. IMAGES
The EU's foreign policy chief says he is hopeful the Iran nuclear deal could be revived after receiving "reasonable" responses to his proposed text from Iran and the United States. "I am hoping that in the coming days we are not going to lose this momentum and we can close the deal" says Josep Borrell, at an informal meeing of EU foreign ministers in Prague. SOUNDBITE
The EU says "everybody is studying the response and this is not the time, for the moment, to speculate on timing", as it mulls Iran's reponse to a "final" draft agreement on reviving a 2015 nuclear accord with major powers it presented at talks in Vienna. SOUNDBITE
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