US and Iran to initiate indirect treaty talks on April 6

Houston — The United States will take the first steps toward indirect treaty talks with Iran on April 6 in Vienna as formal discussions begin with other nations involved in the 2015 nuclear agreement on how Iran can return to compliance. While Iran is rejecting any direct talks for now without US concessions on lifting crude oil and other economic sanctions, the scheduled Vienna talks could lay out the road map for an eventual deal. The Biden administration has called former President Donald Trump’s so-called maximum pressure campaign a failure and President Joe Biden supports a return to something similar…