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US officials have also confirmed their return to the negotiating table in Austria
Moments after the date was made public, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price also announced that the US will be present in the negotiations at the end of this month.
He added that the US delegation will be headed by Robert Malley, the US Special Envoy for Iran.
“We have been very clear that the talks, if they are to succeed, if we are to close the remaining areas of disagreement, they should start precisely where the sixth round of talks left off,” Price said.
Regarding Iran’s return to the negotiating table, on 1 November Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said: “The exact date was supposed to be set after further consultations between Iran and the P4+1, especially our Chinese and Russian friends. The exact date will be announced this week.”
Khatibzadeh added that the last thing Iran wants is “talks for talks.”
“The preparations that have been made are to get out of the Vienna impasse, and if the US wants to continue the impasse, it will be a difficult path for them to return to the nuclear deal,” the spokesman explained.
Iran has also made it abundantly clear that the Vienna negotiations will not be about the core of the nuclear deal.
Stating that the JCPOA was “signed, sealed, and set in a box,” the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said: “What we are talking about today is not about the nuclear deal as a whole. No one is negotiating the JCPOA as a whole. What we are talking about is the effective return of the United States and the lifting of sanctions in an irreversible manner.”
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