Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Are Stuck

Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi at a news conference in Tehran, Iran, June 21, 2021. (Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency via Reuters)  

CNBC: Iran nuclear deal talks are stuck after substantial progress, negotiator says 

* A German official involved in the talks described the progress made in the last three rounds of discussions as "quite substantial" despite coming to a now two-month standstill. 

* The pause in talks follows the election of Iran's new president, Ebrahim Raisi, who will succeed Hassan Rouhani this week. 

* Last month, a senior Biden administration official told reporters on the condition of anonymity that the U.S. negotiating team had not reached a deal after six rounds of talks. 

WASHINGTON – The fragile discussions over the revival of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal were about two weeks away from reaching a conclusion in June, but several complicated items remain unresolved, according to a senior German government official participating in the talks. 

Earlier this year, signatories of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, began the first of what would become six rounds of all-day negotiations at multiple hotels across Vienna. 

"In March our determination and that of our American friends was to get this done quickly. It took longer than we thought. But I think, in June, another two weeks of serious negotiation and political will, we could have had it," the senior German government official said. 

Until that point, the progress had been "quite substantial," the official said. 

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