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Iran’s nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani arrives at Palais Coburg where closed-door nuclear talks will take place with Iran February 28, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
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DUBAI, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Iran’s top nuclear negotiator and a senior US envoy will travel to Vienna this week for talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear pact, officials from both governments said on Wednesday to restart a process which had stalled in June.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Tehran is ready to reach an agreement guaranteeing its rights, according to state media.
“(Iranian negotiator) Bagheri Kani will leave Tehran in a few hours… In this round of talks, which will take place as usual under the coordination of the European Union, the ideas put forward by different sides will be discussed,” Kanaani said
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Without giving further details, a US official said that Rob Malley, the US special envoy to Iran, will travel to Vienna this week for talks on reviving the nuclear deal. Continue reading
Last month, the European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said he had proposed new draft text to revive the deal under which Iran curtailed its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
In 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the deal, calling it too soft on Iran, and re-imposed tough US sanctions, prompting Tehran to exceed the nuclear limits set out in the pact.
The deal seemed poised for revival in March after 11 months of indirect talks between Tehran and President Joe Biden’s government in Vienna.
But the talks then stalled over obstacles, including Tehran’s demand that Washington provide guarantees that no US president would abandon the deal like Trump did.
Biden cannot promise this because the nuclear deal is a non-binding political agreement, not a legally binding treaty.
In June, EU-brokered indirect talks between Bagheri Kani and Malley aimed to break an impasse on how to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal that ended with no progress in Qatar.
“Iran is determined to reach a stable agreement that guarantees the rights and interests of the Iranian nation,” Kanaani said, calling on Washington to “create the conditions for the talks to progress effectively by making the necessary decisions.”
An Iranian official told Reuters that the talks in Vienna would be held “in the format of the Doha meeting,” at which EU envoy Enrique Mora shuttled between Bagheri Kani and Malley because Tehran refused to hold direct talks with Washington.
Mora tweeted earlier Wednesday, “Heading to Vienna to discuss #JCPOA again for full implementation based on the text submitted by the coordinator on July 20.”
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Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed in Saint Paul, Minn. writing by Parisa Hafezi; Edited by Frank Jack Daniel and Toby Chopra
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