Iran says nuclear talks at ‘critical’ stage

Negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal have entered a “essential” stage throughout which some key points nonetheless have to be resolved, Tehran’s high diplomat stated on Wednesday. The 2015 accord had provided Iran sanctions reduction in return for curbs on its nuclear programme, however the US unilaterally withdrew in 2018 below then-president Donald Trump.

Western powers which were locked in nuclear talks with Iran have stated up to now week {that a} deal was inside attain whereas stressing the ball was within the Islamic republic’s courtroom.

Iran’s International Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated on Wednesday that the negotiations had “reached a essential and vital stage”.

“We hope that some delicate and vital points remaining within the negotiations can be resolved within the coming days with realism from the Western aspect,” he stated at a joint press convention along with his Oman counterpart Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi.

Amir-Abdollahian stated he was “optimistic” a couple of deal, whereas insisting Iran wouldn’t surrender its “crimson traces” within the negotiations. He didn’t elaborate.

The Vienna talks, which contain Iran in addition to Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia immediately, and the US not directly, resumed in November.

In latest days, progress within the negotiations has been reported by France, Germany, the US and even Iran.