Vienna talks ‘complicated’
Iran yesterday said talks with world powers in Vienna to restore the 2015 nuclear deal are "complicated and difficult" but have not hit an impasse.
"The negotiations are complicated and difficult as they have reached key issues that need serious political decisions especially by Washington," foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a news conference.
But "there is no impasse in Vienna", he added.
Iran is engaged in negotiations with Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly and with the United States indirectly to revive the deal formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The deal offered Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme.
But the US unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump and reimposed stiff economic sanctions, prompting Tehran to begin rolling back on its commitments.
The drive to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal resumed in late November.
"If the US and European parties show real determination", an agreement can be reached very soon in Vienna, Khatibzadeh said yesterday.
"We need objective guarantees to make sure the US does not leave the agreement once again and that it honours its commitments," he added.
The goals of the negotiations are to have the US return to the deal by lifting its anti-Iran sanctions.
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