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Images of the Palais Coburg in Vienna where negotiators trying to save the 2015 landmark Iran nuclear deal are due to take stock ahead of a brief pause in the negotiations. IMAGES
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors is meeting at the Agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Director General Rafael Grossi will address the Board on different topics including iranian nuclear. IMAGES
The United States says that initial talks by its partners in Vienna on Iran were "constructive" as President Joe Biden looks for ways to rejoin a 2015 nuclear deal. "We do see this as a constructive and certainly welcome step," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Iran says that the preservation of a nuclear accord depends on the scheduled end in October of a UN arms embargo as the United States seeks to extend it. "The timetable for the removal of arms restrictions embodied in Resolution 2231 is an inseparable part of the hard-won compromise," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells a Security Council session. SOUNDBITE
UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, holds special board of governors' meeting to discuss Iran in Vienna, Austria. IMAGES