May 13, 2021 at 5:00 pm The ongoing talks in Vienna (Austria) between Iran and the P4 + 1 group of countries to revive the nuclear deal, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), has revived hopes of a wider thaw in relations between Iran and the United States. Most of the international community – barring Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain – welcomes this development, especially after four turbulent years under the previous Donald Trump Administration. But expectations of a revival of the nuclear deal do not necessarily mean that it is going to happen, not in a seamless fashion anyway.