Washington. December 28. INTERFAX - The US authorities cannot call the current successes during the eighth stage of the Vienna talks on the revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) significant, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday
"We have noted little progress in the last days of negotiations, but unlike the previous phases of negotiations, it is unclear how significant it is," he said during a telephone briefing.
He noted that Iran is moving towards the restoration of the JCPOA too slowly, and this is unacceptable.
In 2015, Iran and the six countries - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany - concluded a nuclear agreement (JCPOA), according to which Tehran should limit the development of its nuclear program exclusively for peaceful purposes. Former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 and resumed anti-Iranian sanctions, which prompted Tehran to gradually abandon compliance with some of the terms of the deal.
From April to December of this year, Iran and a number of world powers held seven rounds of talks in Vienna to restore the JCPOA, and then there was a long break. The United States is not directly involved in them.
