Web desk,<\/p>\n
The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday\u00a0Iran’s top diplomat had assured him at their first meeting that Tehran was ready to restart\u00a0talks\u00a0on the\u00a0nuclear deal soon news agency reported.<\/p>\n
EU-mediated negotiations began in Vienna in April aimed at reviving a 2015\u00a0nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers an accord left hanging by a thread after former US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew in 2018 and ramped up sanctions.<\/p>\n
The discussions, which involve the remaining parties seeking to persuade Washington to rejoin the deal and\u00a0Iran\u00a0to return to its\u00a0nuclear\u00a0commitments, have been stalled since June, when ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi was elected as\u00a0Iran’s president.<\/p>\n
An\u00a0EU\u00a0statement said Borrell “underlined once again the great importance of a quick resumption of the Vienna\u00a0talks” at a meeting Tuesday with\u00a0Iran’s new top diplomat Hossein Amir-Abdullahian on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n
“The Iranian Foreign Minister assured of the willingness to resume negotiations at an early date,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
Raisi voiced support Tuesday in his international debut for reviving the\u00a0nuclear\u00a0accord, even as he berated the United States.<\/p>\n
“The Islamic Republic considers useful\u00a0talks\u00a0whose ultimate outcome is the lifting of all oppressive sanctions,” Raisi said in a recorded speech to the UN.<\/p>\n
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said he expected a resumption of the\u00a0talks\u00a0“in the coming weeks”, without giving an exact date.<\/p>\n
The 2015\u00a0nuclear\u00a0agreement offered\u00a0Iran\u00a0a reduction of UN sanctions in return for strict limits on its\u00a0nuclear program, but Tehran has progressively stepped away from its commitments in the wake of Trump’s withdrawal and imposition of sanctions.<\/p>\n
Trump’s successor Joe Biden has signaled a willingness to return to the deal, which was negotiated when he was Barack Obama’s vice-president and under Iran’s moderate President Hassan Rouhani.<\/p>\n
Hopes of a revitalized deal were kept alive earlier this month by Iran\u00a0agreeing with the UN\u00a0nuclear\u00a0agency on a new compromise regarding surveillance of its\u00a0nuclear\u00a0sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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