The break comes after Iran’s election of a conservative chief justice linked to mass executions as president.
Iranian and Western officials on Sunday temporarily paused discussions seeking to revive an abandoned nuclear deal after a staunch Western critic won Iran’s presidential election on Friday, prompting U.S. and European Union leaders to caution about renewed urgency in long-fraught nuclear talks between the parties. «As we have stated before, time is on nobody’s side. These talks cannot be open ended,» diplomats from Britain, France and Germany said in a note reported by Reuters while echoing Sullivan in saying critical issues were still under debate. According to Al Jazeera, when Raisi takes office in early August, he’ll become the first Iranian president sanctioned by the United States.
