Iran Announces Resumption of Nuclear Talks with World Powers on November 29

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, said that talks with world powers, aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear deal, will resume on November 29.

Bagheri Kani tweeted that he had agreed with Enrique Mora, Secretary-General of the European Union's Foreign Affairs Department, during a phone call, "to start negotiations in Vienna, the capital city of Austria,  with a view to lifting the illegal and inhumane sanctions on November 29," according to Reuters.

Last April, Tehran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), as well as Germany, began discussing ways to save the nuclear agreement, which former US President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018, and re-imposed sanctions on Iran.

Trump’s decision prompted Tehran to breach various restrictions imposed on uranium enrichment, according to the same source.

But the talks have stalled since the election of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in June, amid expectations that he will take a tough line when talks resume in Vienna.

On the other hand, the head of Israeli military intelligence (known as AMAN), Tamer Hayman, said on October 2, that Iran cannot acquire nuclear weapons in the short term.

Hayman added that Tehran is likely to try to exhaust long negotiations with the West as she moves forward with uranium enrichment.

In an interview with the Israeli “Walla” website, Hayman described Iran’s enriched uranium levels as “alarming”, stressing that Tehran still has a long way to go before it acquires an effective nuclear bomb that could threaten Israel.

He said that the Iranians have 3 options, either to return to the previous 2015 nuclear agreement, or to proceed with an unprecedented challenge, including the pursuit of armaments and the continuation of enrichment, or to go to an agreement through which they achieve much of what was achieved in the past.

Hayman revealed that Israel has a practical and reliable military option towards Iran and its nuclear program in addition to economic tools, affirming the need to take Iran in the direction that Israel wants, along with diplomacy, and to reach a better agreement.