The United States of America (USA) said today, Thursday, that it is ready to resume negotiations over the nuclear deal with Iran but Tehran asked more time ahead of transferring power between the outgoing President Hassan Rouhani and President-elect Ibrahim Raisi.
A spokeswoman for the US Department of State said that her country was ready to resume the talks, but the Iranians requested more time.
She added that when Iran completes the process of transferring power to the newly elected president, the USA then will plan to return to Vienna, the capital city of Austria, to continue talks.
The US diplomat affirmed that Washington is keen on the joint return to discuss the comprehensive plan (the nuclear agreement).
She warned that this offer would not be on the table forever as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken explained.
It is worth noting the six previous rounds of talks held in Vienna between Iran and five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council along with Germany did not succeed in reviving the nuclear agreement that collapsed in 2018.
The ex-US President decided to walk out of the agreement to implement his electoral agenda.
It was scheduled that Vienna talks would be resumed earlier this month but some disputes over main topics led to put off these talks until now.
Last Monday, the US Department of State said that the special envoy is ready to resume negotiations of the nuclear agreement as soon as all parties set an appointment to launch the seventh round.
The United Kingdom (UK), Germany, China, France, USA, and Iran signed the nuclear agreement named” the Joint Comprehensive Plan for Action.”
The then-signed agreement includes lifting the Western economic sanctions of Iran which pledges to restrict its nuclear program to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons.
However, in the last few years, Iran and the Western countries traded accusations over abusing the nuclear agreement.
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