Deputy�Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi�says Iran and the US�will have no direct or indirect talks�in Vienna, where the�remaining parties to a 2015 nuclear deal will meet Tuesday to discuss the lifting of sanctions on Tehran.

He made the remarks on Sunday, two days after participants at the virtual meeting of the�Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)�Joint Commission agreed to resume in-person talks in the Austrian capital.

Araqchi said Iran�s negotiations with Germany, France, Britain, China and Russia�in Vienna are purely technical about the lifting of sanctions and Iran�s remedial measures as well as the sequence of the US lifting of sanctions which�should be verified.

�What we are pursuing in Vienna at the Joint Commission is precisely based on the firm positions of the establishment that have repeatedly been stated by Leader�of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Seyyed�Ali Khamenei] and the country's officials,� he said.
"We will have no talks, whether direct or indirect, with the Americans in Vienna. We will negotiate with the Joint Commission and the P4 + 1 and pronounce our condition for the [US] return to the JCPOA. Our demand is that the US must first fulfill all its obligations and remove all the sanctions it has imposed, then we will verify and return� to the point before the remedial measures Iran has taken, he added.