Iranian President: 'Deal is possible but sanctions must be truly lifted'

Iran on Monday said an agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers was "at hand", but insisted that sanctions be "truly lifted" through ongoing talks in Vienna, AFP reports.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, receiving Irish foreign and defense minister Simon Coveney, said that "sanctions must be truly lifted" in the ongoing negotiations to revive the deal in the Austrian capital.