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DPATehranIran’s foreign minister Hussein Amirabdollahian was set to provide answers to mediators in negotiations to revive the international nuclear deal. He was expected to give the response by midnight (1930 GMT).There are still three points that need to be clarified in the negotiations, Amirabdollahian said, according to a report Monday by the Iranian state news agency Irna. But he did not say what these points were. A week ago, a round of EU-mediated talks in Vienna ended, and diplomats from the countries involved returned to their capitals.European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell spoke of a good compromise and stressed that the text for the agreement was now ready. “You now have to say yes or no,” the diplomat said last Monday.In a diplomatic tour de force, representatives from the US and Iran, as well as other countries, had been trying to reach an agreement that would result in the removal of US sanctions and the reinstatement of restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear programme. These were the original goals of the 2015 pact known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which aimed to prevent Tehran from building nuclear weapons. In 2018 the United States, under then-President Donald Trump, decided to unilaterally leave the agreement.
