Iran’s nuclear negotiating team arrived in Vienna early in the morning on Thursday to attend the 6th round of the talks set to start at 11 AM local time.
Headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, the team is accompanied by Majid Takht-Ravanchi and Hamid Baeidinejad.
This round of the negotiations will be started with talks at deputy level.
Earlier, the two sides had deemed the drafting process ‘very slow’ during the previous five rounds of talks. Remaining differences and the slow process of drafting were the two reasons Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry met on May 30 in Geneva.
Although no official result was announced by the two foreign ministers at the end of the May 30 meeting, there is still hope Zarif and Kerry’s talks would play a hand in expediting the drafting process in the next few weeks.
Questioning Iranian nuclear scientists and inspecting Iran’s military sites had been two instances of the other side’s excessive demands which have been completely removed from the negotiating table following Ayatollah Khamenei’s strong objection to them.