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The United States urges Moscow and Tehran to take the "decisions" needed to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, putting the ball squarely in their camp as last-minute Russian demands threatened to derail the process. "We remain confident that we can achieve mutual return to compliance in fairly short order" if decisions are "made in places like Tehran and Moscow," State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells reporters during a briefing after the European Union announced a pause in negotiations. SOUNDBITE
Images of the Palais Coburg in Vienna where negotiators trying to save the 2015 landmark Iran nuclear deal are due to take stock ahead of a brief pause in the negotiations. IMAGES
At a joint press conference with his American counterpart Anthony Blinken in Paris, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian urges the Iranian government to take the "final decisions" to allow the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, through the re-entry of the United States to an accord it walked out of in 2018. IMAGES
The EU's foreign policy chief says he is hopeful the Iran nuclear deal could be revived after receiving "reasonable" responses to his proposed text from Iran and the United States. "I am hoping that in the coming days we are not going to lose this momentum and we can close the deal" says Josep Borrell, at an informal meeing of EU foreign ministers in Prague. SOUNDBITE
The EU says "everybody is studying the response and this is not the time, for the moment, to speculate on timing", as it mulls Iran's reponse to a "final" draft agreement on reviving a 2015 nuclear accord with major powers it presented at talks in Vienna. SOUNDBITE
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