Europeans Press for Progress on US-Iran Nuclear Talks

European leaders hope the start Tuesday of indirect talks in Vienna between the United States and Iran about reviving an international deal to limit Tehran’s nuclear capabilities, will realign Washington and European policy toward the Islamic Republic.

Then-U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the international deal in 2018 and a reimposition of American sanctions on Iran were a major irritant in relations between the U.S. and Europe. U.S. and Iranian officials from Tehran and Washington are set to hold talks through European intermediaries on the margins of a meeting among Iran and European nations, China and Russia, co-signatories of the landmark 2015 international accord, which restricted Iran’s nuclear program in return for relief from U.S. and international sanctions.