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VIENNA (AP) Efforts to bring the United States back into the 2015 deal on Iran's nuclear program are to step up a gear on Tuesday as Iran and the five world powers remaining in the accord meet.
Efforts to bring the United States back into the 2015 deal on Iran's nuclear program are to step up a gear on Tuesday as Iran and the five world powers remaining in the accord meet in Vienna while the U.S. is due to start indirect talks with Tehran.
Officials from Iran and five other world powers who remain part of the Iran Nuclear Deal are to meet on Tuesday, in an effort to bring the US back to the accord.
Former US President Donald Trump withdrew the country from the deal in 2018, instead stepping up sanctions against the Iranian regime.
Iran has since been violating the restrictions of the 2015 deal, which was put in place to restrict its nuclear programme in return for the easing of economic sanctions.
Over the last few months it announced its scientists had started enriching uranium up to 20%, a technical step closer to weapons-grade levels, and threatened to cut off surveillance cameras used by international inspectors.
President Joe Biden came into office saying that getting back into the accord and getting Iran’s nuclear program back under international restrictions was a priority. But Iran and the United States have disagreed over Iran’s demands that sanctions be lifted first.
Senior foreign ministry officials from the countries still in the accord, the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, are holding a European Union-chaired meeting Tuesday in Vienna.
Also due in the Austrian capital is a U.S. delegation headed by the administration s special envoy for Iran, Rob Malley. State Department spokesman Ned Price said talks will be structured around working groups that the Europeans will form with the other parties to the accord.