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The United States said earlier in June it was awaiting a
constructive response from Iran on reviving the 2015 deal -
under which Iran restricted its nuclear program in return for
relief from economic sanctions - without "extraneous" issues.
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian last week called
on Washington, which exited the deal and then imposed crippling
sanctions on Tehran during the Trump administration in 2018, to
"be realistic".
It appeared on the brink of revival in March when the EU, which
is coordinating negotiations, invited ministers to Vienna to
seal it after 11 months of indirect talks between Tehran and
President Joe Biden's administration.
But the talks have since been bogged down, chiefly over Tehran's
insistence that Washington remove the Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC), its elite security force, from the U.S.
Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list.
Two officials, one Iranian and one European, told Reuters ahead
of Borrell's trip that "two issues including one on sanctions
remained to be resolved", comments that Iran's foreign ministry
has neither denied nor confirmed.
France, a party to the deal, on Friday urged Tehran to take
advantage of Borrell's visit to restore the pact while it
remained possible.
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; editing by John Stonestreet)
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