Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Wednesday said a new nuclear deal between his country and the west was “closer to an agreement in Vienna than ever before,” referring to ongoing negotiations in Austria’s capital.

Speaking to reporters in Damascus, Syria, Amirabdollahian said negotiators were closing in on revising the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which former President Trump scrapped in 2018.