Vienna talks resume, curbs or enrichment?

Vienna: Negotiators in Vienna resumed talks Monday over reviving Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with hopes of quick progress muted after the arrival of a hard-line new government in Tehran led to a more than five-month hiatus. The remaining signatories to the nuclear deal formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — Iran, Russia, China, France, Germany and Britain — convened at the Palais Coburg, the luxury hotel where the agreement was signed six years ago.The talks came as Austria is a week into a lockdown imposed because of a surge of coronavirus cases. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported their start, without elaborating, as journalists remained outside of the hotel. The last round of talks, aimed at bringing Iran back into compliance with the agreement and paving the way for the U.S. to re-join, was held in June. The U.S. is not at the table because it unilaterally pulled out of the deal in 2018 under thenPresident Donald Trump, who restored and augmented American sanctions in a campaign of “maximum pressure” to try to force Iran into renegotiating the pact.