VIENNA — A delicate EU mission to Iran this week failed to secure a commitment from Tehran’s new hardline administration to resume negotiations over reviving a teetering nuclear deal, according to EU officials.
“They are not yet ready for engaging in Vienna,” one senior EU official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Instead, Iran committed to meeting with EU officials in Brussels in the coming weeks to discuss details of texts on the table at the end of the last round of talks in June, which took place in Vienna.
“It’s not a bad idea that we sit down in a long meeting with the new [Iranian] delegation and we go through all the texts … and we clarify with the new delegation different questions that they can have,” the senior EU official said.
The nuclear talks have been stalled since the election of hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi to the Iranian presidency in June. Iran has repeated that it was ready to resume talks “soon” but has failed to commit to a date, leaving observers increasingly pessimistic.
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