Iran says nuclear talks reach ‘sensitive and important point’

Iranian International Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian attends a gathering along with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia January 20, 2022. Russian International Ministry/Handout through REUTERS/Recordsdata

VIENNA, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Talks in Vienna on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers have reached a delicate level and Western nations ought to take a sensible method to settle remaining issues, Iran’s international minister stated on Wednesday.

“Nuclear talks in Vienna are reaching a delicate and necessary level,” the minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, instructed a information convention along with his Omani counterpart in Tehran.

“We ponder whether the Western aspect can undertake a sensible method to undergo the remaining factors of the talks.”

Reuters reported final week {that a} U.S.-Iranian deal was taking form in Vienna after months of oblique talks to revive the nuclear pact deserted in 2018 by then-U.S. President Donald Trump, who additionally reimposed intensive sanctions on Iran. learn extra

The 2015 deal between Iran and world powers restricted Tehran’s enrichment of uranium to make it more durable for it to develop materials for nuclear weapons, if it selected to, in return for a lifting of worldwide sanctions in opposition to Tehran.

Amirabdollahian stated Iran had underlined to the European Union’s high diplomat, Josep Borrell, throughout this month’s annual Munich Safety Convention that Tehran would by no means cross its purple traces throughout negotiations.

The talks are nearing conclusion, a Russian envoy stated on Tuesday, and sources near the negotiations stated a prisoner swap between Iran and america was anticipated quickly.

Since 2019, following the U.S. withdrawal from the deal, Tehran has gone far past its limits, rebuilding stockpiles of enriched uranium, refining it to greater fissile purity and putting in superior centrifuges to hurry up output.

Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Writing by Michael Georgy; Modifying by William Maclean and Timothy Heritage

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