Meeting of the working group on the lifting of sanctions as part of the Vienna negotiations on the JCPOA. File photoVIENNA, Oct 18Mikhail Ulyanov, Permanent Representative of Russia to International Organizations in Vienna, believes that the goal of restoring the Iranian nuclear deal will be achieved in the second half of November. «In my humble opinion, the goal of restoring the JCPOA will be achieved in the second part of November. There is no reason to disrupt the nuclear deal.» , — Ulyanov wrote on Twitter. In 2015, the UK, Germany, China, Russia, the USA, France and Iran signed a nuclear deal — the JCPOA, which involved the lifting of sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, the United States under Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and reinstated sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a phased reduction in its obligations under the agreement, abandoning restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and the level of uranium enrichment. Negotiations were held in Vienna 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. According to Iranian representative Bagheri Kyani, the negotiations were successful, but the representative of the US State Department, Ned Price, assessed the progress in Vienna as modest, urging Tehran to take the issue seriously. nuclear deal, and expressed his opinion on the «remaining issues» in the negotiations. The EU called Iran's response to the nuclear deal proposal constructive and said it was consulting with the United States on further steps. The Iranian side received a US response on August 24.
The US does not see a chance to restore the Iranian nuclear deal in the near future
