The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced the end of the first round of the Vienna talks, with an agreement to continue negotiations at the expert level. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said that the expert meetings will discuss technical issues in the areas of lifting sanctions and nuclear steps, adding that the Iranian delegation stressed during the meeting that lifting US sanctions must be the first step to activating the nuclear agreement. In addition, a spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Authority announced the start of tests on advanced ninth-generation centrifuges, while Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei announced that Tehran had installed sets of underground centrifuges at the Natanz plant.
