TEHRAN, 08 December 2022, (TON): Iran put three ballistic missiles on display at an outdoor prayer esplanade in central Tehran, as talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers flounder.

The paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said “the missiles, known as Dezful, Qiam and Zolfaghar and with official ranges of up to 1,000 kilometers, were already-known models.”

Diplomats from countries that remain in the 2015 nuclear deal, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China are working with Tehran to revive the accord, which had sought to limit Iran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for trade.

American diplomats are present in Vienna but they are not in direct talks with Iranians. The accord collapsed in 2018 when then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US and re-imposed sanctions on Iran.

The display came on the second anniversary of ballistic missile attacks on American bases in Iraq in retaliation for the US drone strike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in 2020.