{"id":459706,"date":"2021-04-27T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459706"},"modified":"2021-04-27T12:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:15:25","slug":"iran-nuclear-talks-resume-in-vienna-amid-new-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-nuclear-talks-resume-in-vienna-amid-new-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Vienna Amid New Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-nuclear-talks-resume-in-vienna-amid-new-complications%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>BERLIN\u2014World powers were set to resume high-level talks in Vienna on Tuesday focused on bringing the United States back into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nuclear-deal\">nuclear deal<\/a> with Iran, in their first session since comments surfaced from the Iranian foreign minister alleging that Russia once tried to scupper the pact.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry has thus far refused to comment on the remarks from Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, made in a seven-hour interview with a think tank associated with the Iranian presidency that leaked over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s top representative at the Vienna talks, Mikhail Ulyanov, who has outwardly been one of the most optimistic about the possibility of getting Tehran and Washington to agree to terms for the United States to rejoin the 2015 deal, also made no mention of the allegations before the meetings, saying in a tweet only that \u201cthe participants will continue negotiations on restoration of the nuclear deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-459709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-54.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\"  style=\"display:none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-54.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-54-300x205.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-54-480x328.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ulyanov is joining representatives from China, Germany, France, and Britain\u2014the other parties to the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA\u2014for the talks chaired by the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParticipants will continue their discussions in view of a possible return of the United States to the JCPOA and on how to ensure the full and effective implementation of the JCPOA,\u201d the EU delegation said before the talks.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is not at the table because it unilaterally pulled out of the deal in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump, who restored and augmented American sanctions in a campaign of \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d to try and force Iran into renegotiating the pact with more concessions. President Joe Biden wants to rejoin the deal, however, and there is a U.S. delegation in Vienna taking part in indirect talks with Iran, with diplomats from the other world powers acting as go-betweens.<\/p>\n<p>The deal promises Iran economic incentives in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. The reimposition of American sanctions has left the country\u2019s economy reeling, and Tehran has reacted by steadily increasing its violations of the restrictions of the deal, such as increasing the purity of the uranium it enriches and its stockpiles, in a thus-far unsuccessful effort to pressure the other countries to provide relief.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate goal of the deal is to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb, something it insists it doesn\u2019t want to do. Iran now has enough enriched uranium to make a bomb, but nowhere near the amount it had before the nuclear deal was signed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3791383\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3791383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-54.jpeg\" alt=\"Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at a press conference in Tehran, Iran, on Aug. 5, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi\/AP Photo)<\/figure>\n<p>The comments from Zarif, who himself helped negotiate the original 2015 nuclear deal, have the potential to complicate the Vienna talks, which are currently focused on how the United States would roll back its sanctions\u2014and which ones\u2014and how Iran would return to compliance.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, reviewed by The Associated Press, Zarif describes Russia as wanting to stop the nuclear deal before it was struck under the Obama administration in 2015, suggesting Moscow wanted to keep Iran at odds with the West.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry has called the leak of the recording \u201cillegal,\u201d but hasn\u2019t disputed its authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>The Vienna talks began in early April, and there have been several rounds of high-level discussions, while expert groups have been working on proposals on how to resolve the issues around American sanctions and Iranian compliance, as well as the \u201cpossible sequencing\u201d of the U.S. return.<\/p>\n<p>The comments from Zarif are just the latest complication that the diplomats have to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, an attack suspected to have been carried out by Israel recently struck Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear site, causing an unknown amount of damage.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran retaliated by beginning to enrich a small amount of uranium up to 60 percent purity, its highest level ever.<\/p>\n<p><em>By David Rising<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN\u2014World powers were set to resume high-level talks in Vienna on Tuesday focused on bringing the United States back into the nuclear deal with Iran, in their first session since &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-54.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Vienna Amid New Complications","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-54.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Vienna Amid New Complications","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}