{"id":96052,"date":"2021-06-15T05:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=96052"},"modified":"2021-06-15T05:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:44:31","slug":"auto-draft-557","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/06\/15\/auto-draft-557\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Russia Envoys Discuss Iran Nuclear Deal Ahead of Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA \u2014 VIENNA – Delegations from Russia and the United States involved in nuclear negotiations with Iran held talks in Vienna on Monday, two days ahead of a summit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

The United States is not directly involved in the Vienna negotiations but has regular contacts with participating diplomats.<\/p>\n

Efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear containment deal for Iran are a rare topic of collaboration between the two global adversaries.<\/p>\n

Mikhail Ulyanov, a senior diplomat who headed the Russian delegation at the meeting in Vienna, called the talks with U.S. counterparts “fruitful.”<\/p>\n

“Our dialogue in Vienna seems to be proof that the two countries can maintain businesslike cooperation on issues of common interest, non-proliferation in this particular case,” Ulyanov wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n

The nuclear agreement was\u00a0scuppered\u00a0in 2018 when the Trump administration pulled the United States out of the accord, arguing that it handed Iran too many concessions.<\/p>\n

Diplomats from China, Germany, France, Russia and Britain held joint talks with Iran Saturday and multiple bilateral meetings afterward at a hotel in the center of the Austrian capital.<\/p>\n

Matthew\u00a0Rojansky, director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington, said Russia was keen to curb some of Iran’s ambitions.<\/p>\n

“Moscow still prefers to see Tehran checked in its aspiration to develop a weapon, but is much less motivated when it comes to checking Iran’s regional ambitions and its broader global misbehavior,” he told the AP.<\/p>\n

“At the same time, Russia has a balancing act to\u00a0perform in Syria, where Iran’s force of arms on the ground could become a problem for Russian ambitions.”<\/p>\n

The 2015 agreement was designed to keep Iran’s nuclear program peaceful, imposing strict controls on uranium enrichment levels as well as the technology and facilities used for the process.<\/p>\n

Iran stopped abiding by those limits after the U.S. withdrawal but insists it has no plan to build nuclear weapons \u2014 a claim that the U.S. and its\u00a0Western\u00a0allies\u00a0dispute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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