Those talks, in which Iran and the U.S. have engaged through intermediaries, come as the Obama-era nuclear deal hangs by a thread and amid warnings about Iran's nuclear advances since Iran halted talks in June.
Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images, FILEhas agreed to restart negotiations over its nuclear program next month, its chief negotiator said Wednesday.
A State Department spokesperson told ABC News the administration had"seen the reports but do not have any further details about a possible return to Vienna talks in November."Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Theodora Gentzis and Iran Deputy Foreign Miister Ali Bagheri Kani walk together during a diplomatic meeting between the Belgian Foreign Affairs Ministry and a delegate of Iran in Brussels, Oct. 27, 2021.
It has also obstructed the work of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, whose chief said last week its monitoring ability is"no longer intact."The Biden administration has increasingly warned that while the door is still open to diplomacy, time is running out before restoring the deal would be pointless because of how advanced Iran's nuclear program had become.
"If they continue to stall while advancing their nuclear program, there may come a time when the U.S. or Israel turn to 'plan B'," tweeted Nicholas Miller, a Dartmouth College professor who researches nuclear proliferation. On Wednesday, Bagheri met with Enrique Mora, a senior European Union diplomat who had been facilitating the talks. After their"serious and constructive conversation," Bagheri tweeted, Iran"agreed to start negotiations by the end of November."
As Abdollahian reiterated, Iran has demanded that the U.S. lift sanctions first, since it was former President Donald Trump who first violated the deal by exiting and reimposing sanctions. But President Joe Biden has committed to not lifting any sanctions until Iran returns to compliance -- what his administration calls a"mutual return" to the deal -- amid continued domestic criticism of the orginial agreement in Washington.
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