Indirect US-Iran talks in Doha fail to achieve breakthrough

Published date30 June 2022
The talks were a follow up on negotiations in Vienna to re-enter the 2015 nuclear deal, which had stalled as of March

"Unfortunately, not yet the progress the EU team as coordinator had hoped-for. We will keep working with even greater urgency to bring back on track a key deal for non-proliferation and regional stability," said Enrique Mora, chief of staff to EU Foreign Affairs chief Josep Borrell, who was acting as the intermediary between the U.S. and Iran during the discussions.

Mora was charged with passing messages between U.S. special envoy Robert Malley and Iranian official Ali Bagheri, with Iran refusing to have direct talks with the U.S.

According to NBC News, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani said that the Doha talks were "held in a professional and serious atmosphere" and that the agenda had been to hold two days of negotiations.

Both sides travelled to Doha without new proposals and Iran reportedly did not lessen its list of demands, including holding out until...

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