Iran’s newly elected president, Ebrahim Raisi, signaled in a speech this week that he wants Iran and the U.S. to succeed in reaching a new nuclear deal after Washington withdrew from the previous agreement under Donald Trump’s presidency in 2018.
Talks are continuing in Vienna among officials from the U.S., the European Union, Russia, and Iran as to an agreement on the cessation of nuclear enrichment to levels suitable for weaponization by Iran in exchange for the lifting of sanctio