US and Iranian officials said initial indirect talksnbspin Vienna on Tuesdaynbspaimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear dealnbspwere constructiv
US and Iranian officials said initial indirect talks in Vienna on Tuesday aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal were „constructive“, with negotiations set to continue this week as US President Joe Biden looks for ways to revive the agreement. „We do see this as a constructive and certainly welcome step,“ US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters in Washington. „It is a potentially useful step as we seek to determine what it is that the Iranians are prepared to do to return to compliance with the stringent limitations under the 2015 deal and, as a result, what we might need to do to return to compliance ourselves,“ he added. European allies of the United States, along with Russia and China, met in Vienna with representatives of Iran in the most forceful bid yet to revive the Iran nuclear deal after former president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in May 2018. Following the closed meetings of the signatories to the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Russian envoy Mikhail Ulyanov tweeted that the initial talks were „successful“. „The restoration of JCPOA will not happen immediately. It will take some time. How long? Nobody knows,“ he wrote. „The most important thing after today’s meeting of the Joint Commission is that practical work towards achieving this goal has started.
