Iran will not resume talks with world powers over a return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear accord until President-elect Ebrahim Raisi’s government is operative, Reuters reported on Thursday.

This probably won’t be until mid-August, a source told the news outlet.

During his daily briefing to reporters on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that the U.S. is “prepared to return to Vienna for a seventh round of talks,” adding, “We understand that the Iranians are still undergoing consultations.”

Speaking at a news conference shortly after his win, Raisi said that the U.S. must lift all sanctions and that neither Iran’s ballistic-missile program nor its support for regional militias was up for negotiation.

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