Iran's chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani will return to Vienna on the evening of February 27 for talks on resolving the remaining issues in indirect negotiations with the United States to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, the official government news agency IRNA reported.
Bagheri Kani, who flew to Tehran last week for consultations with Iranian officials, will "pursue the negotiations with a clear agenda aimed at resolving" the remaining issues, IRNA said.
Nournews, which is affiliated with Iran's Supreme National Security Council that is in charge of the nuclear talks dossier, said a council meeting stressed "the need to quickly resolve the remaining issues that border between agreement and dead end."
On February 26, Iran’s foreign minister said his country is studying a rough draft of a deal to revive the pact after the sides hammered out details in Vienna.
Iran is "seriously reviewing [the] draft of the agreement," Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Twitter.
"Our red lines are made clear to Western parties. Ready to immediately conclude a good deal, should they show real will," Amir-Abdollahian added.
Iran signed the original deal with world powers the United States, Britain, France, German, Russia, and China.
But then-President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the deal in 2018, saying the terms weren’t sufficient to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and that Tehran was financing terror in the region. Trump also reinstated damaging sanctions against Iran.
Iran denied it is seeking nuclear weapons and rejected the claim that it is supporting terror.
The European Union has been acting as an intermediary between Iran and U.S. negotiators as the American side is not participating in face-to-face talks with Tehran.