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VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and global powers resumed talks on Thursday to rescue the 2015 nuclear deal in an effort potentially complicated by Tehran\u2019s decision to ramp up uranium enrichment and what it called Israeli sabotage at a nuclear site.<\/p>

Police officers stand outside a hotel, where a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission or Iran nuclear deal will be held, in Vienna, Austria, April 15, 2021. REUTERS\/Leonhard Foeger<\/figcaption>

Casting a shadow over the Vienna talks, Tehran on Tuesday announced its decision to enrich uranium at 60% purity, a big step closer to the 90% that is weapons-grade material, in response to an explosion at its key Natanz facility on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Calling the move \u201cprovocative\u201d, the United States and the European parties to the deal warned that Tehran\u2019s enrichment move was contrary to efforts to revive the accord abandoned by Washington three years ago.<\/p>\n

Tehran\u2019s refusal to hold direct talks with its old adversary the United States forced European intermediaries to shuttle between separate hotels in Vienna last week when Iran and the other signatories held what they described as a first round of \u201cconstructive\u201d talks to salvage the pact.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t worry about Iran. We have always remained committed to our obligations,\u201d Rouhani said in a televised cabinet meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven today, if we wish, we can enrich uranium at 90% purity. But we are not seeking a nuclear bomb … If others return to full compliance with the deal … we will stop 60% and 20% enrichment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 2015 deal was designed to make it harder for Iran to develop an atomic bomb in return for lifting sanctions.<\/p>\n

Highlighting Western concerns, a senior diplomat said that while the desire was to make progress, Iran\u2019s latest violation could not be ignored and made efforts to achieve a breakthrough before the June 18 Iranian presidential election harder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe seriousness of Iran\u2019s latest decisions has hurt this process and raised tensions,\u201d said the senior Western diplomat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have to see how in the coming days we address these violations with the will to press ahead in the talks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deal\u2019s remaining parties – Iran, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia – have agreed to form two expert-level groups whose job is to marry lists of sanctions that the United States could lift with nuclear obligations Iran should meet.<\/p>\n

A delegate at the talks said events in Natanz should not distract, and that this round needed to focus on what the Americans were actually prepared to do.<\/p>

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\u201cThey still have not said what they mean,\u201d the delegate said. \u201cWe need the Americans to say which sanctions they are prepared to lift.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tehran has repeatedly said that all sanctions must be rescinded first, warning that it may stop negotiations if the measures are not lifted. Washington wants Iran to reverse the breaches of the deal that it made in retaliation for tough sanctions imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will underline that Tehran does not want to hold corrosive negotiations. Our aim is not just talks for talks. In case of having a constructive outcome, we will continue the negotiations. Otherwise the talks will stop,\u201d Iran\u2019s top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi told state TV.<\/p>\n

Israel, which Tehran refuses to recognise, opposes the deal, an accord that Iran and U.S. President Joe Biden are trying to revive after Trump quit it in 2018 and reinstated sanctions. Israel has not formally commented on Sunday\u2019s Natanz incident.<\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates, which also supported the decision to quit the 2015 accord and reimpose sanctions on Tehran, urged Washington to push for a better accord.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou (U.S.) are essentially in the driver\u2019s seat to get to a point to where we can address what I believe were shortcomings in the JCPOA,\u201d envoy Yousef Al Otaiba told Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution, using an abbreviation for the deal.<\/p>\n

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