Iran says to resume Vienna nuke talks on Nov 29

This handout picture provided by Iran's High Council for Human Rights on May 29, 2021 shows the organization's deputy secretary Ali Bagheri Kani at its premises in the capital Tehran. Bagheri Kani is also the country’s nuclear negotiator. (IRAN'S HIGH COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS / AFP)

TEHRAN – Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran's senior nuclear negotiator, said on Wednesday that the Vienna nuclear talks for the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, will resume on Nov 29.

Iran has said the issue of lifting sanctions and the related parties' full implementation of obligations to the JCPOA will be the main agenda of the talks which has been suspended since June following a shift in Iran's administration

"In a phone call with Enrique Mora, we agreed to start the negotiations aiming at the removal of unlawful and inhumane sanctions on Nov 29 in Vienna," Bagheri Kani tweeted.

After meetings between Bagheri Kani and Mora, deputy secretary-general of the European External Action Service, in Tehran and Brussels, Iran and the European Union had agreed on the resumption of talks in November.

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Iran has said the issue of lifting sanctions and the related parties' full implementation of obligations to the JCPOA will be the main agenda of the talks which has been suspended since June following a shift in Iran's administration.