DOHA, June 28 (Reuters) – New indirect talks between the United States and Iran over Iran’s nuclear program opened in Qatar on Tuesday, state media reported in Tehran, as Iran’s chief negotiator faltered. is interviewed by Enrique Mora, the representative of the European Union who oversees the talks.
Enrique Mora plays the role of intermediary in Doha between Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, and the United States’ special envoy for Iran, Rob Malley, who are housed in the same hotel in the Qatari capital.
Both sides are trying to end a months-long stalemate in talks aimed at bringing Iran and the United States back under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iran nuclear deal signed in Vienna in 2015 but later denounced by former US President Donald Trump.
In reaction to Washington’s withdrawal, Tehran began in 2019 to gradually free itself from the terms of the agreement.
While an agreement seemed close last March, the talks fell apart mainly because of Iran’s demand that the United States remove the Revolutionary Guards from the American list of foreign terrorist organizations.
Reuters learned last week from an Iranian and European representative that Tehran had backtracked on the request, but two issues remained unresolved – including one regarding sanctions against Iran.
(Report Andrew Mills, with Parisa Hafezi; French version Jean Terzian, edited by Bertrand Boucey)
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