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"Nuclear talks in Vienna are reaching a sensitive and important
point," the minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, told a news
conference with his Omani counterpart in Tehran.
"We wonder whether the Western side can adopt a realistic
approach to go through the remaining points of the talks."
Reuters reported last week that a U.S.-Iranian deal was taking
shape in Vienna after months of indirect talks to revive the
nuclear pact abandoned in 2018 by then-U.S. President Donald
Trump, who also reimposed extensive sanctions on Iran.
The 2015 deal between Iran and world powers limited Tehran's
enrichment of uranium to make it harder for it to develop
material for nuclear weapons, if it chose to, in return for a
lifting of international sanctions against Tehran.
Amirabdollahian said Iran had underlined to the European Union's
top diplomat, Josep Borrell, during this month's annual Munich
Security Conference that Tehran would never cross its red lines
during negotiations.
The talks are nearing conclusion, a Russian envoy said on
Tuesday, and sources close to the negotiations said a prisoner
swap between Iran and the United States was expected soon.
Since 2019, following the U.S. withdrawal from the deal, Tehran
has gone far beyond its limits, rebuilding stockpiles of
enriched uranium, refining it to higher fissile purity and
installing advanced centrifuges to speed up output.
(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing
by William Maclean and Timothy Heritage)
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