Negotiators are optimistic about Iran’s nuclear agreement

VIENNA – Top negotiators resuming talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuke deal stated Sunday that they remain optimistic about reaching an agreement to limit Tehran’s nuclear enrichment.

” We are 5 minutes or 5 second from the finish line, said Mikhail Ulyanov, Russian Ambassador. He spoke to reporters at Palais Coburg in Vienna four days after the start of the talks. He stated that there were “3 to 4 remaining issues.”

” They are sensitive, particularly for Americans and Iranians,” Ulyanov stated. Although I cannot promise, the impression that we are heading in the right direction .”

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Enrique Mora is the top negotiator in the European Union and he said that he was “absolutely optimistic” about progress made so far.

” We are moving, and I anticipate that we will close negotiations soon,” he said to Iranian media.

The U.S., Iran and the European Union resumed indirect negotiations over Tehran’s broken nuclear agreement Thursday. This was after months of stagnation in negotiations.

Since the de facto fall of the agreement, Iran has continued to operate advanced centrifuges as well as rapidly increasing its stockpiles of enriched Uranium.

Iran reached the nuclear agreement in 2015 together with the U.S.A., France and Germany. In return for lifting economic sanctions, Iran agreed to reduce its enrichment.

Then, the U.S. president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the agreement in 2018, claiming he would seek a stronger deal. But that did not happen. One year later, Iran started to break the terms of the agreement.

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