WASHINGTON, Jan 6 US will consider «another route» if not soon an agreement with Iran to return to the Joint Comprehensive Nuclear Action Plan, State Department spokesman Ned Price said. “If we do not reach an understanding on Mutual Return to Compliance (JCPOA) soon, Iran’s growing number of steps will eliminate the positives of the JCPOA, and we will have to consider another path, «Price said. He did not say which» path «we are talking about. In 2015, the UK, Germany, China, Russia, the United States, France and Iran entered into a nuclear deal — the JCPOA, which included the lifting of sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and reinstated sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a phased reduction in its commitments under the agreement, abandoning restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and uranium enrichment levels. Talks resumed in Vienna this week to restore the full operation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The eighth round of Vienna talks is currently underway, it began on December 27, there was a short pause for the New Year holidays. to the JCPOA negotiations
