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Iran has denied the prospects of holding direct talks with the United States on the 2015 nuclear deal as it agreed to participate in a meeting in Austria’s capital next week. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif agreed to speak with the other participants P5+1 that include China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom to negotiate on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) during a virtual meeting as the country is set to resume nuclear talks in Vienna next Tuesday. Tehran’s aim, he said, is to “rapidly finalise sanction-lifting and nuclear measures for choreographed removal of all sanctions, followed...
