Nuclear Iran..Tehran announces November 29 as the date for the resumption of the Vienna negotiations

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri said today that negotiations to revive the Iranian nuclear deal will resume on November 29 in the Austrian capital Vienna, while the US State Department said it hopes Tehran will return to negotiations in good faith.

Bagheri, who is the chief Iranian negotiator in the Vienna negotiations, which have been stalled since last June, added that he had agreed, during a phone call with the European Union envoy, Enrique Mora, to start negotiations aimed at "lifting the illegal and inhumane sanctions" on the 29th of this month, in reference to To the sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran after its withdrawal in 2018 from the nuclear agreement concluded in 2015.

The European Union stated - in a statement - that nuclear talks between world powers and Tehran on reviving the nuclear agreement will be held in attendance, adding that Enrique Mora will chair the talks on behalf of the European Union's foreign policy coordinator Josep Borrell.

Washington's call

While the United States said it hoped Tehran would return to the nuclear talks in good faith and willingness to negotiate, State Department spokesman Ned Price added - in press statements - that the US special envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, will head the US delegation in the Vienna negotiations.

Earlier today, the Secretary-General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said on Twitter that negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement "will fail unless US President Joe Biden can ensure that Washington does not withdraw from it again."

Two days ago, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh stressed that his country will not enter into direct negotiations with Washington before it lifts sanctions and returns to compliance with the nuclear agreement.

While US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that his country is studying other options in case the Vienna negotiations fail, but it still supports diplomacy and dialogue in the Iranian nuclear file.

Tehran and the six world powers (China, America, France, Britain, Russia and Germany) began last April in Vienna rounds of negotiations in order to save the nuclear agreement from collapse, but negotiations have stalled since the election of Ibrahim Raisi as president of Iran last June.