Indirect negotiations between Iran and the US over Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers will end on Wednesday in Qatar, authorities in Tehran said.
A semiofficial news agency reported the talks wouldn't break a diplomatic deadlock over the accord. The US State Department and the European Union, which is mediating the talks in Qatar, did not immediately acknowledge an end of the negotiations in Doha.
However, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guard, described the negotiations as finished and having “no effect on breaking the deadlock in the talks”. Tasnim claimed that the American position did not include “a guarantee for Iran benefiting economically from the deal,” quoting what it described as unnamed “informed sources.”
“Washington is seeking to revive the (deal) in order to limit Iran without economic achievement for our country,” the Tasnim report claimed.
US Special Representative Rob Malley spoke to the Iranians through EU official Enrique Mora during the talks. Mora then took messages to Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani.
