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Talks resumed Thursday in #Vienna to rescue the 2015 #Iran #nuclear deal. Iranian officials are meeting European officials, though not American ones, as they try to kickstart the agreement that has lain dormant since it was scuppered by former President Donald Trump. The talks come at a tense time, with Iran yesterday announcing it would increase uranium enrichment nearer to levels needed to make an atomic bomb.
The US and Iran are hopeful of progress on reviving the #Iran #nuclear deal in the wake of preliminary talks held in Vienna Tuesday. FRANCE 24’s Reza Sayah in Tehran says the meeting has captured the attention of the Iranian people, where a sense of hope and optimism is taking hold that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action can be reinstated.
Iran is demanding world powers to lift all sanctions against it to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. According to the Iranian foreign minister, ongoing talks in Vienna are now making significant progress. The 2015 agreement offered Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for the country curbing its nuclear programme. But under president Donald Trump, the United States in 2018 pulled out of the deal and re-imposed harsh economic sanctions.
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
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, says he is cautiously "optimistic" over "progress" made at negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and several world powers, during his live-broadcast annual press conference. Negotiations for the Iran Nuclear deal, which began last year after the election of US President Joe Biden, were stopped in June as Iran elected ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi, and were only resumed again in November 2021.
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
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