DUBAI (Reuters) – Talks in Vienna on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers have made “important progress”, Iranian international ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh stated on Monday at a weekly press briefing.

Individually, Iran’s high safety official Ali Shamkhani stated talks with European negotiators had been ongoing and would proceed whereas negotiations with america weren’t on the agenda as a result of they’d not be the supply of “any breakthroughs”.

Oblique talks between Tehran and Washington have been held in Vienna since April amid fears about Tehran’s nuclear advances, seen by Western powers as irreversible except settlement is struck quickly.

Khatibzadeh stated “nothing is agreed till every little thing is agreed” within the Vienna talks.

Reuters reported final week {that a} U.S.-Iranian deal is taking form in Vienna after months of oblique talks to revive the nuclear pact, which Washington deserted in 2018 beneath then-president Donald Trump.

The draft textual content of the settlement additionally alluded to different points, together with unfreezing billions of {dollars} in Iranian funds in South Korean banks, and the discharge of Western prisoners held in Iran.

Iran is able to swap prisoners with america, Iran’s international minister stated on Saturday, including that talks to revive the nuclear deal might succeed “on the earliest potential time” if america made the required political choices.

The 2015 deal between Iran and main powers restricted Iran’s enrichment of uranium to make it more durable for Tehran to develop materials for nuclear weapons, in return for a lifting of worldwide sanctions in opposition to Tehran.

Iran has violated a few of the deal’s nuclear limits since america withdrew and reimposed sanctions beneath Trump.