US may rethink Iran approach if no deal in ‘foreseeable future’

Timing of US sanctions relief, Iran’s centrifuges are sticking points as election of Ebrahim Raisi puts talks on hold.

Washington may need to rethink its approach to Iran if the serious differences between the two countries on resuming compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal cannot be resolved “in the foreseeable future”, a senior US official said on Thursday. “We still have serious differences … over the host of issues, whether it’s the nuclear steps that Iran needs to take to come back into compliance, the sanctions relief that the US would be offering or the sequence of steps that both sides would be taking,” the official told reporters on a conference call. “This process is not going to be open forever,” the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity the Reuters news service reported.