Wednesday, 27 October 2021 (YJC)_ State Department spokesperson said the US believes it is still possible to "quickly reach and implement an understanding on return to mutual full compliance" with JCPOA.
The US State Department said on Wednesday it was prepared to return to Vienna for a seventh round of talks with Iran early next month.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement the US believes it is still possible to "quickly reach and implement an understanding on return to mutual full compliance" with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as only a small number of outstanding issues remain to be settled from the last round of talks in June.
The seventh round, which is expected to begin early next month, will be the first since Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi took office in August. A conservative, Raisi has criticized his predecessor, Hassan Rouhani, for being too eager to reach a settlement with the Western powers and has ordered a comprehensive review of all aspects of the negotiation process begun in April.
"The new administration is trying to find out what are the shortcomings, what are the characteristics for the previous talks," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh told France 24 earlier this month.
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