Iran’s most senior negotiator on Tehran’s nuclear program and a senior US envoy will travel to Vienna this week for talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, officials from the two governments said today, reviving a process that had discontinued in June.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said Tehran was ready to reach an agreement that would secure its rights, according to state media.
“(Iranian negotiator) Bagheri Khani will leave Tehran in a few hours… In this round of talks, which will be held as usual with the coordination of the European Union, ideas presented by different sides will be discussed,” Kanaani said .
Without elaborating, a US official said Rob Malley, the US special envoy for Iran, would travel to Vienna this week to revive the nuclear deal.
Last month the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said he proposed a new draft text to revive the deal under which Iran curbed its nuclear program in exchange for easing economic sanctions.
In 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the deal, calling it too lenient on Iran, and reinstated tough US sanctions as Tehran began violating the nuclear limits set out in the deal.
The deal appeared close to being revived in March after 11 months of indirect talks between Tehran and Joe Biden’s administration in Vienna.
But the talks collapsed after hitting obstacles including Tehran’s demand that Washington provide guarantees that no US president would abandon the deal as Trump did.
Biden can’t promise that because the nuclear deal is a non-binding political agreement, not a legally binding treaty.
In June, EU-brokered indirect talks between Bagheri Khani and Washington’s special envoy for Iran, Rob Malley, aimed at breaking a deadlock over how to save the deal ended in Qatar without progress .
“Iran is determined to reach a stable agreement that will safeguard the rights and interests of the Iranian nation,” said Kanani, who called on Washington to “provide the conditions for effective progress of the talks by taking the necessary decisions.”
An Iranian official told Reuters the talks in Vienna would be held “in the format of the Doha meeting”, where EU envoy Enrique Mora has been going back and forth between Bagheri Kani and Mali as Iran has refused to talk directly with Washington.
Earlier today, Mora tweeted: “On our way to Vienna to discuss bringing the nuclear deal back into full force based on the moderator’s text submitted on July 20.”
Source: AMPE
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