Diplomats of Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China continued talks in Vienna today, the focus of which is to return the US to the framework of its nuclear agreement with Iran.
The USA is not represented in the talks because three years ago, by the decision of former President Donald Trump, it unilaterally left the 2015 agreement between Tehran and the major powers.
After leaving the agreement, Trump imposed harsh sanctions on Iran in an attempt to force Iran to renegotiate the agreement, with greater concessions from Tehran.
US President Joseph Biden wants to bring the country back into the framework of the agreement, but the US delegation in Vienna is indirectly negotiating with Iran, with the mediation of the aforementioned five major powers.
The Biden administration is considering lifting the toughest sanctions imposed on Iran under Trump, in order to entice Tehran to start respecting the terms of the 2015 deal again.
Ahead of the main talks, the representative of Russia, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that the officials of the five major powers met informally with American diplomats, and that the Iranian delegation was not ready for such a step.
The 2015 deal provided for economic incentives for Iran in return for the country limiting its nuclear program.
However, after Trump reimposed tough sanctions on Iran, the country's economy came under severe pressure, and Tehran responded by gradually violating more and more of the deal's restrictions.
The ultimate goal of the agreement is to prevent Iran from developing an atomic bomb, while Tehran insists that is not its intention.
Iran now has enough enriched uranium to build an atomic bomb, but it is a significantly smaller amount than it had before the deal was signed.
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