TEHRAN: Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani announced that the date and place of a fresh round of negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal are being finalized, according to the official Islamic Republic News.
Bagheri Kani stated on Sunday that "the time and venue of next negotiations are being finalised in the exchanges" between Iran and the European Union, adding that "the conversations in Doha took place within a pre-determined framework." He did not specify whether the next round of negotiations will be held directly between Iran and the US or in the format of Iran and the P4+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, plus Germany).
With the help of EU coordinator Enrique Mora, Iran and the US held covert discussions on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Qatari city of Doha to discuss their disagreements regarding the resurrection of the nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Despite the failure of the Doha negotiations to produce results, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian characterised them as "good".
Iran and the major world powers agreed to the JCPOA in July 2015, with Iran agreeing to limit its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. However, former US President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the pact in May 2018 and reinstituted unilateral sanctions against Iran, which led the latter to renege on some of its pact obligations.
The Vienna nuclear negotiations with Iran got underway in April 2021, but they were put on hold in March of this year because to political tensions between Tehran and Washington.
Doha to host fresh round of Iranian nuclear talks