Publish Date: 4 July 2015 - 15:41

TEHRAN, Jul. 04 (MNA) – Technical talks between Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi and US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz is intensively underway in Vienna.

With only four days before an extended deadline for a deal on Iran's nuclear program, Iranian Deputy FMs Araghchi and Takht-Ravanchi, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and Deputy EU Foreign Policy Adviser Helga Schmid began a meeting at 9:00 local time.

Ali-Akbar Salehi and Ernest Moniz, who held a meeting yesterday morning for hours, joined the talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday evening.

After the US-Iran delegation's meeting ended, Salehi and Moniz resumed talks yesterday at 20:00 until today, at 2:00 in the morning.  

Today, since 8:30, Salehi and his US counterpart once again held their joint meeting behind closed doors.