Iranian official media reported that indirect nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington began on Tuesday in Doha, where Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, met with European Union envoy Enrique Mora, who will travel back and forth between the American and Iranian sides.
In separate rooms in a hotel in the Qatari capital, Bagheri Kani and US special envoy for Iran Robert Malley are trying to break the months-long stalemate that has halted efforts to revive Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Iran refuses to hold direct talks with its arch-foe, the United States, which has led to the arrangement of “proximity” talks involving Mora.
Life almost returned to the nuclear agreement in March, but the talks faltered, especially due to Tehran’s insistence on removing the Revolutionary Guards from the US list of foreign terrorist organizations.
An Iranian and a European official told Archyde.com last week that Iran had given up its demand for the Revolutionary Guards. But there are still two issues, one of them related to sanctions, that await resolution.
In 2018, then US President Donald Trump reneged on the agreement, under which Iran restricted its nuclear program in exchange for easing economic sanctions, prompting Tehran to start violating the agreement’s core terms related to nuclear activity regarding a year later.
Source: Archyde.com
