ToplineThe Biden administration is willing to engage in talks over the possibility of re-entering the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a State Department spokesperson told Forbes on Thursday, after the Trump administration abandoned the Obama-era multilateral pact in 2018. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken concludes his first press briefing at the State Department in ... [+] Washington, DC, on January 27, 2021. No invitation has yet been made, but State Department officials said in a press call that the E.U. Following the withdrawal, Trump imposed new sanctions on Iran, ostensibly in the hopes of extracting a better deal. “The sooner we reunite with Europe, Russia, and China on Iran policy, the sooner we can extend the Iran deal and work with these partners to curb Iran's other malevolent behavior.”

Source: Forbes February 18, 2021 22:55 UTC