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Iran seeks assurances as nuclear talks resume
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VIENNA, 29 December 2021, (TON): Iran said “nuclear talks that resumed in Vienna should focus on lifting sanctions on the Islamic republic and “guarantees” that the US will return to the fold.”
Negotiations to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal restarted in late November, after a five-month hiatus following the election of ultraconservative Iran President Ebrahim Raisi.
The talks seek to bring back the United States, after it withdrew from the accord in 2018 under then president Donald Trump and began imposing sanctions on Iran.
Iran has reported progress in the talks, but European diplomats have warned they are “rapidly reaching the end of the road”.
US negotiator Rob Malley has said there are only “weeks” left to revive the deal, if Iran continues its current pace of nuclear activities.
Alain Matton, spokesman for the EU, which is chairing the discussions, wrote on Twitter “the 8th round of the Vienna Talks just started.”
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