(Reuters) – Iran wants to be free from economic sanctions, Hossein Amirabdollahian, the Foreign Minister, stated Friday. This was three days before talks on nuclear arms resume in Vienna.

Monday’s indirect talks between the United States and Iran, with the participation of major powers, aim at bringing the two countries into full compliance with a 2015 deal. Washington pulled out of the agreement in 2018 and placed crippling sanctions upon Iran.

“If the opposing sides are prepared to return to their full obligations and the lifting of sanctions, a good and even immediate agreement can be reached,” Amirabdollahian said in a telephone conversation with the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Joseph Borrell.

“Iran wants a good and verifiable agreement,” Iranian media quoted Amirabdollahian as saying.

Separately, Mohammad Eslami (head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization) stated that the Vienna talks would not focus on “nuclear questions”, but about the return to 2015 US nuclear agreement, Iranian media reported.

Rafael Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency stated Wednesday, following a visit to Tehran, that he has not made any progress in several disputes. The most urgent was accessing the workshop at TESA Karaj after Iran had pledged to allow it two months ago.

It makes parts for centrifuges and other machines that enrichuranium. The shop was infected by apparent sabotage, in which one out of four IAEA cameras in the area was destroyed. Iran took the cameras out of the workshop and now the footage from the camera is gone.

Grossi explained that we are near the point at which I will not be in a position to ensure continuity of knowledge.

However, Amirabdollahian told Borrell that Iran would attend the Vienna talks in “good faith” – despite the U.S. violation of the 2015 agreement.