On Monday, Iran said that reviving its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers depends on Washington, amid expectations that talks to salvage the deal will resume after a top European Union diplomat’s visit Tehran.

"The ball is now in Washington's court," Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a weekly televised press conference.

The Iranian news agency ISNA, quoting an adviser with the Iranian nuclear negotiating team, reported that Qatar will host indirect talks between Washington and Tehran on the nuclear agreement.

"Iran chose Qatar because it is a friendly country," Mohammad Marandi told the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency.

And the spokesman for the National Security Council in the White House, John Kirby, said yesterday that he could not talk about the status of the Iranian nuclear negotiations.

Kirby told reporters, that nothing has changed about Washington's position, which sees the nuclear deal as the best way to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

On Saturday, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell suggested resuming nuclear negotiations with Iran in the coming days, and expressed his happiness with the decision taken by Tehran and Washington.

Borrell added, "We agreed today that this visit will be followed by a resumption of negotiations between Iran and the United States, facilitated by my team to try to resolve the outstanding issues."

For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian announced that his country will seek to resolve problems and differences through negotiations that will resume soon.

Washington withdrew from the nuclear agreement during the presidency of Donald Trump in 2018, and then imposed severe sanctions on Tehran. The sanctions have brought ordinary Iranians to their knees, the recent protests that revolved around food and salary clearly show the effects of the sanctions.

The War in Ukraine is also another factor that motivates the Europeans to convince the Americans to revive the nuclear deal. EU wants to replaced part of Russian energy with Iranian imports.