Iran's indirect talks with the United States on reviving the 2015 nuclear pact will resume soon, the Iranian foreign minister says amid a push by the European Union's top diplomat to break a months-long impasse in the negotiations.
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian met with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to discuss resuming nuclear talks between Tehran and WashingtonTalks had stalled chiefly over the US categorising Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation
The pact appeared close to being revived in March when the EU — which is coordinating negotiations — invited foreign ministers representing the accord's parties to Vienna to finalise an agreement after 11 months of indirect talks between Tehran and US President Joe Biden's administration. "We are expected to resume talks in the coming days and break the impasse. It has been three months and we need to accelerate the work," Mr Borrell told a televised news conference in Tehran.Two officials, one Iranian and one European, told Reuters ahead of Mr Borrell's trip that "two issues including one on sanctions remained to be resolved", comments that Iran's Foreign Ministry has neither confirmed nor denied.
, under which Iran agreed to curbs on its nuclear programme in return for relief from economic sanctions.