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Talks on Iran Nuclear Deal Resume, Then End After an Hour
The Coburg Palais, the venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) meeting, is pictured in Vienna on Nov. 29, 2021. (Vladimir Simicek/AFP via Getty Images)

Talks on Iran Nuclear Deal Resume, Then End After an Hour

Representatives of Iran and the world powers again gathered in Vienna on Thursday to resume the current round of negotiations aimed at re-upping the Iran nuclear agreement originally signed in 2015, under which Iran agreed to slow its nuclear production in exchange for an end to most sanctions. But the talks that began at midday ended after an hour, on participant said.

“The meeting of the Joint Commission is over. It was rather short and constructive. The participants observed a number of important commonalities in there (sic) positions, including with regard to the need to finalize the #ViennaTalks on restoration of #JCPOA successfully and swiftly,” Russia’s representative, Mikhail Ulyanov, tweeted.

The seventh round of negotiations opened last week, after a several-month hiatus during which Iran elected a new hard-line president, and paused on Friday allowing the negotiators from Iran, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China time to confer with their governments over the progress, or lack of progress, of the current talks.  The United States, which unilaterally left the agreement in 2018 and has been participating indirectly in the current talks as it seeks to rejoin the agreement, had confirmed that it would send a delegation led by Robert Malley, the special US envoy for Iran, to Vienna over the weekend.

Iran has said that the main roadblock to signing a new deal is the refusal by the United States to lift all sanctions on the Islamic Republic. The US and European negotiators have said that Iran is not serious about the negotiations. France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told a French parliament committee on Tuesday that the world powers fear that Iran is attempting to draw out the talks in order to continue to develop their nuclear program.

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