Iran says nuclear talks to resume Jan. 15
Iran says the nuclear talks will resume in January as the parties try to reach a final deal in the new year.
The Iran nuclear talks will resume on Jan. 15 and include bilateral and trilateral meetings, Iran's Foreign Ministery said Dec. 31, as Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) try to reach a final nuclear deal in the new year that eluded them after a year of negotiations in 2014.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says the “next round of talks with the P5+1 will resume Jan. 15 at the deputy level, with bilats and trilats,” a semi-official account for Iran’s nuclear negotiating team tweeted Dec. 31.
The State Department did not immediately confirm the next meeting dates. “We don’t have anything to announce yet on the next round of P5+1 negotiations,” a State Department official told Al-Monitor Dec. 30.
The United States and Iran held two days of “good, substantive” talks in Geneva Dec. 15-16, a US official, speaking not for attribution, told Al-Monitor, followed by a one-day meeting of political directors from Iran and the P5+1. As yet, there was no breakthrough, the official said, but the parties will reconvene in mid-January.
