“Vienna’s participants act and react based on interests and it is understandable,” Shamkhani said, when 98 percent of the draft agreement has been already drafted and only a few issues remain to be resolved.

The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council wrote on Twitter that the positive and negative actions of the countries participating in the talks are carried out with the aim of securing interests, something he believes is understandable.

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani returned to Tehran on Monday to hold regular consultations, however, the team of experts remains in the Austrian capital, to continue the informal denials.

During the previous weekend, Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, paid a lightning visit to Tehran to resolve several pending issues, related to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.

Iran is making progress in the 8th round of talks with the 4+1 group, and the removal of sanctions as one of its top priorities, talks to which the United States is indirectly joined, due to its unilateral withdrawal from the deal in 2018.

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