Washington: Very few but critical issues are left unresolved in the Vienna talks.
“We urge all parties, including Russia, to focus on the agreement,” said a State Department spokesman.
The US government has insisted that a small number of issues remain in the Vienna talks, despite Iran and Russia insisting that the lifting talks are not final.
State Department spokesman Ned Price claimed Friday morning that the nuclear deal with Iran in Vienna had reached a small number of remaining issues, but that these were very significant and difficult.
“We urge all parties, including Russia, to focus on the agreement,” Price said, according to US media reports.
“We are very close to an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program,” he said. “An agreement on this may be reached in the coming days.”
In response to a repeated question about the impact of US sanctions against Russia on the interaction of the two countries’ representatives in the Vienna talks, the US State Department spokesman stressed that these sanctions have no effect on the talks.
Earlier, White House spokeswoman Jennifer Sackey said the two sides were close to reaching an agreement in the lifting of sanctions in Vienna, but that ending the talks was often challenging.
Russia’s representative in the Vienna talks, Mikhail Ulyanov, said on Wednesday evening that the talks had not yet been finalized, stressing that not even the text of the final agreement had been finalized.
Western countries, led by the United States and the Zionist regime, have in recent years accused Iran of pursuing military goals in its nuclear program. Iran has strongly denied these allegations.
