"The JCPOA participants (without Iran) and the US met this evening to assess the current state of affairs at the Vienna talks", Russia’s permanent representative to Vienna-based International Organizations wrote in a late Tuesday tweet.
"As always Russians were more optimistic while Western colleagues were more skeptical. The eternal dispute - if the glass is half full or half-empty?", Mikhail Ulyanov added.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, the head of the Iran delegation in Vienna talks Ali Bagheri Kani held a bilateral talk with the Deputy EU Foreign Policy Chief Enrique Mora in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Tuesday.
The expert-level meetings also started between JCPOA parties on Tuesday morning.
The eighth round of talks on the removal of anti-Iranian sanctions began in Austria capital of Vienna on December 27. The talks are reported to have entered drafting a possible agreement on the removal of anti-Iran sanctions and its verification by Iran.
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