U.S. Says It’s Willing to Meet With Iran to Restore Nuclear Deal
- U.S. also reversed Trump effort to ‘snap back’ UN sanctions
- Iran’s Zarif suggests U.S. must lift sanctions before meeting
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The Biden administration said it would be willing to meet with Iran to discuss a “diplomatic way forward” in efforts to return to the nuclear deal quit by President Donald Trump in 2018, a first step toward easing tensions.
The offer is a politically risky effort by President Joe Biden to move beyond the standoff after a slew of U.S. sanctions cratered Iran’s economy and infuriated other world leaders, who argued that the 2015 accord and the inspections regime it created had reined in Tehran’s nuclear program.