The United States and Iran will begin indirect discussions through intermediaries on renegotiating the nuclear deal that limited the amount of nuclear material Iran could refine, a deal Donald Trump violated in his second year in office even though his administration noted Iran was in compliance.
According to the Associated Press, the preliminary agreement to open talks is a major foreign policy victory during President Joe Biden’s first one hundred days in office after Iran had initially rebuffed advances from the Biden Administration.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price called the resumption of negotiations, scheduled for Tuesday in Vienna, “a healthy step forward,” but added, “These remain early days, and we don’t anticipate an immediate breakthrough as there will be difficult discussions ahead.”