INTERNATIONAL: The United States will not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects in Iran under a revived nuclear deal, but would not allow Russia to use the deal as an "escape hatch" to evade Ukraine-related sanctions, State Department spokesperson Ned Price has said.

The State Department spokesperson Ned Price has made it clear, Russia is not getting out of the sanctions and other financial measures that they have been imposed for this war in Ukraine. Price has also mentioned that what they are talking about here is the very basic point, something that should be quite clear, that they would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects.

Talks in Vienna were paused last week, but Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian and has said that U.S. suggestions that Moscow was blocking efforts to revive the 2015 deal were untrue.

The State Department Spokesperson, Ned Price has said; "One, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA is not going to be an escape hatch for the Russian Federation and the sanctions that have been imposed on it because of the war in Ukraine. But two we are not going to sanction Russia for undertaking for participating in nuclear projects that are part of the JCPOA."