Iran said on Tuesday that its talks with world powers on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal would resume within a few weeks.
This comes after statements by European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, in which he confirmed that Western powers would urge Tehran to resume talks.
"Each meeting requires advance coordination and preparation of an agenda. As we previously emphasized, the Vienna talks will resume soon and within the next few weeks," said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, according to the official IRNA news agency.
The world powers held six rounds of indirect talks between the United States and Iran in Vienna, in an attempt to find ways to bring the two sides back into compliance with the nuclear deal that former US President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018.
Talks stalled in June after Ebrahim Raisi won Iran's presidential election and took power last August.
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, announced that the ministers of Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia will not hold a meeting with Iran on the sidelines of the annual meeting of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly this week.
On the sidelines of the General Assembly
But the official news agency quoted Khatibzadeh as saying that Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian will hold individual meetings with the ministers of those countries on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings attended by world leaders, and that the nuclear agreement and the Vienna talks will be at the forefront of the issues he will discuss with them.
The diplomats had initially planned to hold a ministerial-level meeting of the parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement, tomorrow, Wednesday, on the sidelines of the annual meeting of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.
"It is not on the agenda," Borrell, who serves as coordinator of the nuclear deal known as the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action", told reporters.
"What is important is not holding this ministerial meeting, but rather the desire of all parties to resume negotiations in Vienna," he added, noting that he would meet with his Iranian counterpart, Hussein Amir Abdullahian, on Tuesday.
"After the elections, the new presidency requested a delay in order to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the negotiations and a better understanding of everything related to this very sensitive file. The summer has already passed, and we expect talks to resume soon in Vienna," Borrell said.
For his part, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said that the organization is working to pave the way for additional diplomatic efforts on the Iranian nuclear file, in order to provide guarantees to the world.
While Tehran called on the US administration to change its policy, the US State Department affirmed its commitment to the diplomatic track with regard to Iran's nuclear program.
A sixth round of indirect talks between Tehran and Washington was postponed last June after Ibrahim Raisi was elected president of Iran, and Raisi took office on August 5.
The world powers held six rounds of indirect talks between the United States and Iran in Vienna, to try to work out how the two sides could return to compliance with the nuclear deal that former US President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018.
Trump reimposed tough sanctions on Tehran, which then began easing restrictions on its nuclear program under the deal, and Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.