In this file photo taken on Feb 4, 2006, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is mobbed by reporters as he proceeds to the 42nd Munich Conference on Security Policy in Munich. (JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)
Iran said all the documents required in order to finalize an agreement with the US and other world powers over how to resurrect the 2015 nuclear accord are ready, the Islamic Republic’s lead negotiator, Abbas Araghchi, told Iranian state TV.
Speaking in Vienna on the sidelines of the latest talks, Araghchi said “principal issues still remain,” but that he hoped a final agreement to restore the deal can be reached in the next round of negotiations within the coming weeks.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned against negotiating with Iran after the victory of Ebrahim Raisi in the country's presidential elections
“Indirect negotiations are difficult and we need to work much more carefully to prevent misunderstandings,” Araghchi said, referring to the fact that the US and Iran are not negotiating directly but through European mediators.
Araghchi added that delegations plan to return to their capital cities after meeting in Vienna on Sunday, in order to consult with their governments.
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Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned against negotiating with Iran after the victory of Ebrahim Raisi in the country's presidential elections.
"Raisi's election is, I would say, the last chance for world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement, and understand who they are doing business with," said Bennett in a statement he read out first in Hebrew and then in English.
"A regime of brutal hangmen must never be allowed to have weapons of mass-destruction," he said. "Israel's position will not change on this."
Bennett, a nationalist atop of a cross-partisan coalition, has hewed to the opposition of his conservative predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, whose caps on projects with bomb-making potential Israel deemed too lax.
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With inputs from Reuters