By Parisa Hafezi and Francois Murphy
VIENNA (Reuters) – Talks to save Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers formally resumed on Thursday with a meeting of the remaining non-US parties, Russia’s top envoy for the talks said on Twitter.
“Now the #JCPOA participants hold an official meeting of the Joint Commission,” tweeted Mikhail Ulyanov, using the acronym of the agreement’s formal name, the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan.
The main US envoy, Rob Malley, will not arrive until this weekend.
The indirect talks between the US and Iran in Vienna, in which other diplomats from the remaining parties to the agreement (France, UK, Germany, Russia and China) act as mediators because the Iranian government refuses direct contact with the American, they aim to induce both sides to return to full obedience to the covenant.
But last week’s debates came to a halt, and officials in Europe and the US expressed dismay at the sweeping demands of the new hard-line Iranian government led by anti-Western President Ebrahim Raisi, whose election in June caused a five-month hiatus in talks.
Western officials say Iran has abandoned any commitments it made in the previous six rounds of talks, appropriated those made by others and demanded more last week.
“Iran will stand firm in its demands,” an Iranian official familiar with the talks told Reuters. “All sanctions need to be suspended immediately in a verifiable process.”
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