Iran’s stalled talks with the United States and hesitance to renew a temporary monitoring agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will raise the risk of Iranian action against Western interests, as well as the collapse of nuclear negotiations altogether. The seventh round of negotiations between Iran, the United States and other officials over resuming compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal will not be held in Vienna this week as originally planned, according to four unnamed officials cited in a June 30 Bloomberg report. The officials said that it was unclear when talks between Washington and Tehran would resume. On July 1, the Russian ambassador to the Vienna-based international organizations said that the parties involved in the talks needed more time before holding a new round of talks. When asked about the chances of revising the nuclear pact in a June 29 interview, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
