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Feb 19, 2021, 12:06 AM – Updated on Feb 19, 2021, 10:55 AM
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The offer is a politically risky effort by President Joe Biden to move beyond the standoff after a slew of U.S. sanctions cratered Iran’s economy and infuriated other world leaders, who argued that the 2015 accord and the inspections regime it created had reined in Tehran’s nuclear program.
“The United States would accept an invitation from the European Union High Representative to attend a meeting of the P5+1 and Iran to discuss a diplomatic way forward on Iran’s nuclear program,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement Thursday. The P5+1 refers to the participants in the nuclear deal with Iran: China, Russia, France, the U.K., the U.S and Germany.
Besides signaling Thursday a willingness to talk with Iran, the Biden administration also reversed Trump s determination that all U.N. sanctions against Iran had been restored.