Loading ...Timing of sanctions relief may be deal breaker as Iran talks resume
(Reuters) – The timing of sanctions relief is the sticking point in nuclear talks between Iran and the six major world powers this week in Vienna, where negotiations kicked off on Wednesday with a meeting between delegates from Tehran and the European Union.
Iran and the six powers are trying to end more than 12 years of diplomatic wrangling over the country’s disputed nuclear program, which Tehran says is peaceful but Western governments fear is aimed at developing an atomic bomb.
After a tentative deal between Iran and the P5+1 – China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States, plus Germany – was reached in Switzerland on April 2, differences have emerged over what was agreed.
Arriving in Vienna, deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, reiterated Iran’s position: “All the economic sanctions should be lifted on the day that the deal is implemented,” according to a report from Iranian news agency Tasnim.
But the United States has made it clear that sanctions on Iran would have to be phased out gradually under the final pact.
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