China News Service, February 15. According to a report by the Qatar Peninsula Chinese website on the 15th, Iranian Foreign Minister Abdullahyan emphasized during the Vienna talks that Iran adheres to its red lines, while the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy Borrell Optimism about a nuclear deal.

Data map: The Political Director-General Meeting of the Joint Committee of the JCPOA on the Iranian Nuclear Issue was held in Vienna.

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　　In a phone conversation with Borrell, Abdullahyan accused some Western countries of not showing enough sincerity to reach a good deal during the talks, thereby delaying the talks.

　　Abdullahyan also said he would not back down in any way on the red line drawn.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzad said on the 7th that "the lifting of sanctions and Iran's benefit from it are Iran's red line in the negotiation."

　　Borrell said he had already had another important call with Iran's foreign minister, adding that, as the coordinator of the nuclear deal, he was confident a deal was imminent.

　　He stressed that it was time to make a final push and reach a compromise solution.

　　In July 2015, Iran reached a nuclear deal with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.

Under the deal, Iran limited its nuclear activities and the United Nations, the United States and the European Union lifted economic sanctions on Iran.

　　In May 2018, the U.S. government unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, and subsequently reintroduced and added a series of sanctions against Iran, including the suspension of sanctions waivers for many of Iran’s civilian nuclear programs.

Since May 2019, Iran has gradually suspended the implementation of some provisions of the Iran nuclear deal, but promised that the measures taken are "reversible".

　　The parties involved in the Iran nuclear deal will start negotiations in Vienna, the capital of Austria, in April 2021 to discuss the resumption of compliance between the United States and Iran, and the United States indirectly participates in the negotiations.

The eighth round of negotiations was launched in Vienna on December 27, 2021.

Suspended on January 28, 2022, resumed on February 8.