After a 5-month hiatus in nuclear negotiations, Iran and the United States have returned to Vienna on August 4 to resume talks on revitalizing the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). Twenty years have passed since the crisis of Iran's nuclear program and related negotiations, and the Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the failure to reach an agreement on this issue is due to a pervasive U.S. government hostility to Iran, present in both the Democrat and Republican parties. Iran was compelled to the negotiating table by the debilitating cost of sanctions and resolutions issued against it primarily by the West led by the U.S.
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