Tehran:
Iran’s new government will in the next handful of weeks determine on a date to return to nuclear talks in Vienna, a spokesman stated on Thursday.
“I assume that in a few weeks we are in a position to set a date with our friends in Europe,” Saeed Khatibzadeh stated at a gathering in the French city of Caen.
“Then possibly we can start negotiations in Vienna.”
The analytical work will finish “maybe in a few days, less than a few weeks”, he stated.
“We are not going to waste even a minute to get back to Vienna,” he stated.
Khatibzadeh had earlier told Le Monde newspaper that the new Iranian administration would return to the talks more immediately than Biden’s did.
Negotiations had resumed on 6 April in Vienna, 77 days soon after Joe Biden took workplace on 20 January.
However, “it has only been 50 days since the new Iranian government took office”, he stated.
The 2015 nuclear deal with Iran supplied to lift sanctions in return for Tehran committing to abandon any ambition to create nuclear weapons and for a drastic reduction in its atomic programme and submission to tighter UN manage.
But soon after the unilateral withdrawal of the Americans from the agreement in 2018 beneath Donald Trump, Tehran has progressively abandoned most of its commitments.
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