The Russian Foreign Ministry said after a meeting of Iran nuclear deal stakeholders in Vienna on Friday that only the United States' aggressive stance prevented the pact from regaining its "intrinsic balance."

The latest meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has demonstrated that all remaining signatories are united in their commitment to the nuclear deal, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said on Friday

Russia will never be the first to deploy medium-range missiles in Europe after the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty ended but will respond in kind if the United States takes this step, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday

Participants in the joint commission on the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear program regret that the United States is planning to unilaterally reimpose sanctions against the Fordow nuclear facility, the head of the Chinese delegation at Vienna meeting said on Friday

Deputy director general of Russia's nuclear corporation Rosatom Nikolay Spassky told the Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei that the corporation planned to renew work with stable isotopes in the Fordow nuclear facility once some technical issues were fixed, the Iranian Embassy in Moscow said on Friday