“The negotiations today in Brussels with Enrique Mora (the EU’s Deputy Foreign Representative) have been very constructive and we have agreed to resume the nuclear negotiations in November,” said the deputy minister and future head of the Iranian nuclear delegation in Vienna.
According to Bagheri, the exact date will be announced next week. Before the official resumption of the nuclear negotiations, Iran wanted to hold consultations on “remaining differences” in order to enable “result-oriented negotiations”. That is why Bagheri met Mora in Brussels now. Both diplomats last met for talks in Tehran in mid-October.
Negotiations resumed in April on the restoration of the 2015 Vienna Agreement were interrupted after the presidential election in June and the change of government in Tehran. China, Germany, France, Great Britain and Russia are trying to get the US back to the agreement. Iran should also enter into technical obligations.
The Vienna deal was supposed to prevent the construction of Iranian nuclear weapons. In return, the sanctions against Iran should be lifted. The then US President Donald Trump terminated the agreement in 2018 and renewed economic sanctions against Iran. The sanctions are partly responsible for the worst economic crisis in the country to date.
In response to the US sanctions, Tehran began to exceed the technical restrictions placed on it in the agreement in 2019. Among other things, the country increased uranium enrichment from the permitted 3.67 to 60 percent.
