In this photograph released by the authoritative website of the bureau of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi, right, meets with United Arab Emirates' apical nationalist information advisor Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, left, successful Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. Sheikh Tahnoon's sojourn comes arsenic the Emirates and Saudi Arabia some negociate with Iran amid efforts successful Vienna to prevention Tehrans tattered atomic woody with satellite powers. An unidentified interpreter sits astatine center. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP) (Uncredited)

BERLIN – The European diplomat chairing atomic talks betwixt Iran and satellite powers says negotiations successful Vienna volition resume Thursday.

Enrique Mora said Wednesday connected Twitter that the parties to the 2015 Vienna accord volition conscionable successful the Austrian superior aft consulting with their governments successful caller days.

European diplomats had urged Tehran to travel backmost with “realistic proposals” aft Iran's delegation past week made galore demands that were deemed unacceptable by the different parties to the accord — Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.

The United States withdrew from the statement successful 2018 nether erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump. His successor Joe Biden has indicated that the U.S. is consenting to return, and American diplomats successful Vienna are being briefed by different powers.

The Vienna accord, formally known arsenic the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, was meant to rein successful Tehran's atomic programme successful instrumentality for loosening economical sanctions against Iran.

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Following the U.S. determination to retreat and reimpose sanctions, Iran has ramped up its atomic programme again by enriching uranium beyond the thresholds allowed successful the agreement. Tehran has besides restricted monitors from the U.N. atomic watchdog from accessing its atomic facilities, raising concerns astir what the state is doing down closed doors.

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