Iran's top negotiator arrived in Coburg Hotel of Vienna on Tuesday to continue intense talks with representatives from five world powers – known as P4+1 – on lifting the US unilateral sanctions on Tehran.

Iran PressEurope: In his first meeting, Ali Bagheri Kani met with EU foreign Policy Chief Enrique Mora.

Expert meetings also began in the venue of talks today between representatives from Iran and other participating countries – France, Russia, China, Britain, and Germany.

The talks are being held as part of the eighth round of Vienna talks and it seems that the negotiations have reached their peak.

Iran and the P4+1 group of countries – Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China – resumed talks in Vienna on January 3 after the parties took a three-day break for the New Year. The US is not allowed to directly attend the talks due to its pullout in 2018 from the deal with Iran.

The eighth round of the Vienna talks began on December 27 with a focus on the removal of all sanctions that the United States imposed on Iran following its unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) three years after the deal was inked.

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