EEAS Enrique Mora and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani are awaiting the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria on November 29, 2021, as a deputy secretary general of the European External Action Service. DUBAI VIENNA, Dec 3, Reuters - The seventh round of indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which began this week, will end on Friday with a formal meeting of the remaining parties to the deal, European and Iranian officials said.
The Joint Commission, which is known as Iran, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China, has bookended previous rounds of talks. The Iranian official said that the meeting would be held around noon 1100 GMT The aim is to resume the talks next week, the European diplomat said.
"The Europeans want to return to their capitals for consultations, and we are ready to stay in Vienna for further talks," an Iranian official close to the talks told Reuters.
On the fourth day of the indirect U.S.-Iran talks on bringing both nations fully back into the deal, the United States and Iran both sounded pessimistic about the chances of re-establishing the deal, which was abandoned in 2018 by former U.S. President Donald Trump.