US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. File photoWASHINGTON, Jun 13Iran is trying to put extraneous issues on the agenda in the talks to revive the nuclear deal in Vienna, its behavior is not encouraging, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Monday. issues that simply should not be there,” Blinken said at a press conference. its nuclear program. «So far, from what we see, Tehran's behavior is not encouraging,» Blinken said. ), which involved the lifting of sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, then-U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and reinstated sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a phased reduction in its obligations under the agreement, waiving restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and uranium enrichment levels. The United States knows that the DPRK is preparing to conduct nuclear tests In Vienna, negotiations were held to renew the JCPOA and lift Washington's sanctions against Tehran. In December 2021, the parties reached an agreement on two draft agreements, in which the European side included the positions of Iran. Iranian spokesman Bagheri Kyani said the talks were going well, but US State Department spokesman Ned Price assessed the progress in Vienna as modest, urging Tehran to take the issue seriously. With the return of the parties to their capitals at the end of March, the negotiations were suspended. The Iranian Foreign Ministry blames the US administration for this.
