On August 4, local time, John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator of the White House National Security Council, answered reporters’ questions at a briefing, saying that Iran’s nuclear negotiations have been basically completed. As President Biden said, the United States will not wait forever. With Iran putting a negotiated agreement on the table, and now the time for an agreement is running out, the United States once again urged Iran to join the negotiation.

Kirby stressed that in the Middle East, there is no problem that Iran needs to solve by possessing nuclear weapons.

　　So far, Iran has not responded.

　　On August 3, local time, Iran, the United States and the European Union said that they will send high-level representatives to Vienna, the capital of Austria, to continue the negotiations on the implementation of the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue.

Ali Bagheri, Iran's deputy foreign minister and chief negotiator on the Iranian nuclear issue, said he was heading to Vienna to advance negotiations.

Bagheri posted on social media that the responsibility lies with the party that violates the agreement, and the Iranian side called on the United States to "show maturity and act responsibly."

Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht-Ravanshi, also said later that Iran negotiated in good faith, but the United States has so far not been able to guarantee that Iran will receive the economic benefits promised in the agreement.

　　In July 2015, Iran reached a comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue with the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany.

In May 2018, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the agreement, and subsequently restarted and added a series of sanctions against Iran.

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

　　From April 2021, the parties involved in the Iran nuclear deal will hold multiple rounds of talks in Vienna to discuss the issue of the US and Iran resuming the implementation of the treaty, and the US indirectly participates in the negotiations.

On March 11 this year, Borrell, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, announced that negotiations were suspended due to "external factors".

Under the coordination of the European Union, Iran and the United States held indirect talks in Doha, Qatar's capital, at the end of June to resume implementation of the Iran nuclear deal, but made no progress.

　　(Headquarters reporter Zhao Miao and Li Jiannan)