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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 5:12 am | א אייר תשפ א
Exterior view of the ‘Grand Hotel Wien’ in Vienna, Austria, Friday, where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran were held. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter)
The attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility is casting a major shadow over the resumption of indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran over the resurrection of the international accord limiting Iran’s nuclear program.
Neither Iran nor the U.S. say the incident will crater the negotiations. But the attack and the destruction of a significant amount of Iran’s uranium enrichment capability add uncertainty to the discussions set for Tuesday in Vienna.
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Containment, rather than breakthrough, may be the theme of the talks being held in Vienna between Iran and the five permanent UN Security Council member states plus Germany. The purpose of the negotiations is to revive the nuclear deal signed by the same group of countries in 2015. In parallel, Iranian escalation against the US – a member of the so-called “P5” alongside Britain, China, France and Russia – cannot be ruled out, as such a scenario would serve Tehran’s interests ahead of its presidential election in June.
China and Russia, both allied to Iran, seem to have approached these talks slightly differently.
Israeli outlets say blackout at Iran's Natanz plant a likely Israeli cyberattack; Western intelligence sources estimate it shut down entire sections of the facility