To fulfill a major demand of some powerful countries in the world, Iran has decided to hold fresh talks with representatives of major powers in Nov 29, 2021.
Iranian deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani said the talks will be held in Vienna, the capital city of Austria
He said he has informed European Union mediator Enrique Mora on telephone about the date of upcoming talks on nuclear programme of Iran.
“We are holding negotiations to get rid of unlawful and inhumane sanctions on 29 November in Vienna,” Bagheri said on Twitter.
Meanwhile, six rounds of talks with the remaining parties to the deal – China, Russia, Germany, France and the United Kingdom – in Vienna, with the US participating indirectly, concluded in late June to allow the administration of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to take form.
According to Al-Jazeera, the European Union also confirmed the news about the resumption of talks and said the negotiations would be chaired by Mora on behalf of EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
“Participants will continue the discussions on the prospect of a possible return of the United States to the JCPOA and how to ensure the full and effective implementation of the agreement by all sides,” said the EU’s European External Action Service in a statement, which added that the remaining JCPOA signatories would be represented.
In April, Tehran and six powers started to discuss ways to salvage the nuclear pact, which has eroded since 2018 when then-President Donald Trump withdrew the US from it and reimposed punishing sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran to breach various limits on uranium enrichment set by the pact.
But the talks have been on hold since the election of Raisi, whose administrations is expected to take a tough approach when the talks resume.
For its part, the US said it could reach an agreement quickly if Iran was “serious” as it announced the resumption of indirect negotiations.
“We believe it remains possible to quickly reach and implement an understanding on a mutual return to compliance with the JCPOA by closing the relatively small number of issues that remained outstanding at the end of June when the sixth round concluded.”
“We believe that if the Iranians are serious, we can manage to do that in relatively short order,” Department of State spokesman Ned Price told reporters. “But we’ve also been clear including as this pause has dragged on for some time, that this window of opportunity will not be open forever.”
But the Raisi administration has previously signalled that it may not wish to resume the talks exactly where they left off during the administration of former President Hassan Rouhani.
Late last month, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said, “We don’t want to enter the Vienna negotiations from the deadlock point of the Vienna negotiations”.
Russia’s top negotiator in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, had said in a tweet earlier in October that it was very important “not to resume the Vienna talks on JCPOA from scratch”.
