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Al-Monitor – Serious gaps remain between Iran and the United States amid nuclear talks in Vienna, a senior State Department official said Thursday, pushing back on reports that a deal was in reach.  “We still have serious differences that have not been bridged” over issues that include Iran’s willingness to come back into compliance, the sanctions relief offered by the United States and …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani blamed “parliamentary bureaucracy” for the delay in the lifting of US sanctions that have almost brought the Iranian economy to its knees over the course of the past three years. “My government has done the job with regard to the sanctions removal, [but] we are kept waiting by this or that parliamentary committee,” he declared at an oil project inauguration ceremony on June 24. The comments were …

(Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran have a temporary agreement on monitoring Iran’s atomic activities that expires on Thursday. If it is not extended, wider negotiations on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal would plunge into crisis, diplomats say. Struck on Feb. 21, the interim monitoring deal was valid for three months, then extended by a month on …

Al-Arabia – Iran said on Wednesday the United States had agreed to remove all sanctions on Iran’s oil and shipping but Washington said “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed” in talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The remarks by outgoing President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi echoed previous assertions by officials in Rouhani’s pragmatist camp …

Iranwire – Late on Wednesday, June 23, one of the most horrific incidents in recent Iranian journalistic history took place in West Azerbaijan province. Earlier that day, about 20 environment reporters had gone on a tour of the Lake Urmia restoration project. While on a visit to the Kani Sib dam, their bus overturned on the road. Reyhaneh Yasini, of …