The Biden administration \u201ccan\u2019t wait forever\u201d for Iran to decide it wants to restart talks on returning to the 2015 nuclear deal that former President Donald Trump quit in 2018, the top U.S. envoy for the negotiations said.<\/p>\n
The U.S. still hasn\u2019t received any indication that Iran\u2019s new president, Ebrahim Raisi, is prepared to commit to a seventh round of talks to come back into compliance with the accord known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, envoy Robert Malley said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Television.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t wait forever as Iran continues its nuclear advances because at some point their advances will be such as to make a return to the JCPOA much less valuable to the U.S. than it would otherwise be,\u201d Malley said, although he added that the U.S. was \u201cprepared to be patient.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut let\u2019s not drag this on for too long because some point, we\u2019ll have to reach a different conclusion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Six rounds of indirect talks in Vienna have so far been inconclusive, with Iran demanding that the U.S. lift all sanctions that were imposed under the Trump administration as a condition for resuming compliance with the Iran deal. The U.S. has said Iran needs to abandon its nuclear work as a condition to get sanctions relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Biden administration \u201ccan\u2019t wait forever\u201d for Iran to decide it wants to restart talks on returning to the 2015 nuclear deal that former President Donald Trump quit in 2018, the top U.S. envoy for the negotiations said. The U.S. still hasn\u2019t received any indication that Iran\u2019s new president, Ebrahim Raisi, is prepared to commit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n