DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s high safety official Ali Shamkhani stated on Monday negotiators are evaluating new components which have affected talks in Vienna on reviving Iran’s 2015 nuclear cope with Western powers.
Shamkhani stated on Twitter Iran was adapting initiatives to speed up an settlement.
Talks to revive the pact have been mired in uncertainty following Russia’s calls for for a U.S. assure that the sanctions it faces over the Ukraine battle wouldn’t harm its commerce with Iran.
Moscow raised the potential stumbling block on Saturday, simply as months of oblique talks between Tehran and Washington in Vienna seemed to be headed for an settlement, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying the Western sanctions over Ukraine had develop into a stumbling block for the nuclear deal.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to dispel speak of such obstacles on Sunday when he stated the sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine had nothing to do with a nuclear cope with Iran.
The 2015 accord eased sanctions on Iran in return for limiting its enrichment of uranium, making it tougher for it to develop materials for nuclear weapons.
The accord fell aside after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the pact in 2018.
(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Tom Hogue and Michael Georgy)