Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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First up though.

Talks on the Iran nuclear deal resumed yesterday in Vienna. The first time since hardliner

Ebrahim Raezi became Iran's president in the summer.

Negotiators from Europe, China and Russia joined Iranian counterparts to find a path

back to the joint comprehensive plan of action or JCPOA or to bash out a new deal.

Not in the room are American negotiators. Iran hasn't spoken to them since then President Donald Trump tore up the deal in 2018.

The JCPOA put limits on Iran's nuclear enrichment program in exchange for the lifting of many economic sanctions.

As those sanctions came back into force, Iran got right back to work in reaching uranium,

edging ever closer to real weapons capability. In the meantime the diplomacy hasn't gone anywhere.

But after the first day of this week's negotiations, things were all smiles.

In the D.K. Mora, Deputy Secretary General of the EU's Foreign Service summed up the mood.

There is clearly a will of the Iranian delegation to engage in serious work and bring JCPOA back to life.

So I feel positive that we can be doing important things for the next weeks to come.

There's a glimmer of hope there, but there's also still a long way to go.

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