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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran and world powers have made some progress on how to revive the 2015 nuclear accord later abandoned by the United States, and an interim deal could be a way to gain time for a lasting settlement, Iranian officials said on Monday.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters, before the beginning of a board of governors meeting, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2021. REUTERS\/Lisi Niesner\/File Photo<\/figcaption>

Tehran and the powers have been meeting in Vienna since early April to work on steps that must be taken, touching on U.S. sanctions and Iran\u2019s recent breaches of the deal, to bring back Tehran and Washington into full compliance with the accord.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are on the right track and some progress has been made, but this does not mean that the talks in Vienna have reached the final stage,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a weekly news conference in Tehran.<\/p>\n

\u201cPractical solutions are still far away, but we have moved from general words to agreeing on specific steps towards the goal,\u201d Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia\u2019s ambassador to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency (IAEA), wrote on Twitter on Monday.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, which took office in January pledging to rejoin the deal, has said it is ready to remove \u201call sanctions that are inconsistent\u201d with the accord, but not spelled out which measures it means.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s clerical establishment has said it will not return to strict observance of the 2015 agreement unless all sanctions reimposed or added by former President Donald Trump after he ditched the accord in 2018 are rescinded first.<\/p>\n

Diplomats say sequenced steps by each side may offer a solution, while Iranian officials told Reuters the high-stakes talks in Vienna might yield an interim deal to give space to diplomacy on a lasting settlement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe May deadline is approaching…What is being discussed in Vienna for the near term is the main outlines of an interim deal to give all sides more time to resolve complicated technical issues,\u201d said an Iranian official.<\/p>\n

He referred to a law passed by Iran\u2019s hardline-dominated parliament that obliges the government to harden its nuclear stance if sanctions are not lifted.<\/p>\n

The law mandated an end to short-notice U.N. nuclear inspections from Feb. 21, but Tehran and the IAEA agreed to keep up \u201cnecessary\u201d monitoring for up to three months.<\/p>\n

Another Iranian official said that if a political agreement was reached on technical steps to remove all sanctions, Tehran might suspend enrichment to 20% purity in return for a release of blocked Iranian funds in other countries.<\/p>\n

Iran says $20 billion of its oil revenue has been frozen in countries like South Korea, Iraq and China under the U.S. sanctions regime since 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnblocking Iran\u2019s funds is a good start. An interim deal will give us time to work on removal of all sanctions on Iran,\u201d the second Iranian official said.<\/p>\n

On top of sanctions reimposed in 2018, Trump added new ones, including classifying Iran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group and blacklisting Iran\u2019s Central Bank for alleged terrorist financing.<\/p>\n

EU SEES GOODWILL TO SAVE 2015 DEAL<\/h2>\n

The European Union\u2019s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said on Monday he saw a willingness to save the 2015 deal, citing progress at the talks in Vienna.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that there is real goodwill among both parties (Iran and the United States) to reach an agreement, and that\u2019s good news,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that both parties are really interested in reaching an agreement, and they have been moving from general to more focused issues, which are clearly, on one side sanction-lifting, and on the other side, nuclear implementation issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, Iran has been overstepping the deal\u2019s limits on nuclear activity since Washington withdrew in 2018, recently raising uranium enrichment to 20% fissile purity, a level where uranium is considered to be highly enriched and a significant step towards bomb-grade material.<\/p>\n

The 2015 pact had capped the level of enrichment purity at 3.67% – suitable for generating civilian nuclear energy.<\/p>\n

Complicating Biden\u2019s objective to rejoin the deal, Tehran last week launched enrichment to 60% purity at its main Natanz plant after a damaging blast at the site that Tehran blamed on sabotage by arch-foe Israel, which opposes diplomacy with Iran.<\/p>\n

Around 90% fissile purity is needed for a nuclear explosive, Tehran has repeatedly denied seeking to weaponise enrichment, though Western intelligence services and the IAEA believe it once had a covert atom bomb programme that was shelved in 2003.<\/p>\n

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