US, Iran to Start Indirect Nuclear Talks Through European Intermediaries

Technicians work at a nuclear facility as officials and media visit the site, about 150 miles southwest of Tehran, Iran, on Dec. 23, 2019. Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File

The United States and Iran announced Friday that they would start indirect talks through intermediaries next week in a bid to get both countries back into an accord limiting Iran’s nuclear program, nearly three years after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the deal.

State Department spokesperson Ned Price called the resumption of negotiations, scheduled for Tuesday in Vienna, Austria, “a healthy step forward.”