Three days before the resumption of nuclear talks in Vienna, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian said his country wanted to lift "all sanctions" against it.

The indirect talks between the United States and Iran, with the participation of major powers, are aimed at bringing Washington and Tehran into full compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement, from which Washington withdrew in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions that paralysed the Iranian economy.

In a telephone conversation, Hossein Amir Abdel-Lahian said with the EU foreign policy official, Josep Burrell: "If the opposing parties are willing to return to their full obligations and lift the sanctions, a good, even immediate, agreement can be reached."

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said after a visit to Tehran that "no progress has been made on a number of issues, the most pressing of which is the question of reaching a workshop at the Tessa complex in Karj two months after Iran made promises to allow it."

The workshop specializes in the manufacture of parts of centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium, and was apparently vandalized in June, destroying one of the four IAEA cameras there.

Iran subsequently removed all the cameras. Moreover, the footage from the destroyed camera is missing.

Commenting on the incident, Grossi warned: "We are approaching a point where I will not be able to ensure that we continue to know what's going on there."