US ready to join talks to resume Iran nuclear deal

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The US has moved to roll back Trump-era sanctions and re-enter talks with the Islamic republic over its nuclear programme (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/AP)

The Biden administration says it is ready to join talks with Iran and world powers to discuss a return to the 2015 nuclear deal, in a sharp rejection of former President Donald Trump’s campaign that sought to isolate the Islamic Republic.

The administration also took two steps at the United Nations aimed at restoring policy to what it was before Mr Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018.