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Iran official says Tehran relied on prior agreements at Vienna talks

An Iranian official has said that their country’s draft of recommendations was based on the nuclear deal and did not discard the previous round of talks.
In this handout provided by the EU Delegation in Vienna, Representatives of the European Union (L) and Iran (R) attend the Iran nuclear talks at the Grand Hotel on April 06, 2021 in Vienna, Austria.

Iran and world powers finally met last week in Vienna to continue the nuclear talks after a five-month delay due to the Iranian elections, which changed the administration in Tehran. The sixth round of talks, designed to bring the US back into the agreement and remove sanctions and bring Iran back into full compliance, did not go as well as some Western observers had hoped. However, an Iranian official speaking to Tasnim News Agency has denied many versions of the story appearing in Western media outlets.

The source, described as “a senior foreign ministry official,” said that “Iran’s text of recommendations were based on the drafts of the six previous rounds” of talks. The official said that the recommendations were based on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name for the nuclear deal which was signed in 2015 and spells out the terms of the agreement. The official continued that none of the recommendations “were maximalist, but the opposing side is used to a minimum approach to their commitments.”

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