Qatar will host indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a media adviser to the Iranian nuclear team was quoted on Monday as saying.
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"Iran chose Qatar to host because it is our friend," Mohammad Marandi told the semi-official ISNA news agency.
Nour News reported that "considering the continuing efforts by Qatar to help re-start talks for the lifting of US sanctions, Doha's chances for hosting the upcoming negotiations are higher than other Persian Gulf countries."
The key factor that prevented an agreement in Vienna in March so far was Iran's demand for the removal of its Revolutionary Guard from a US terrorist list. Washington said it would not relent its position, and Tehran eventually sidelined it, although its repeated violations of the 2015 pact, and its recent accelerated uranium enrichment effort have made resuming talks difficult.
European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell visited Tehran last week and appeared to have succeeded in convincing Iran to resume talks with the US.
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