raidenii|Mohammad Eslami retained as VP, Iran's nuclear chief

TEHRANraidenii, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday reappointed Mohammad Eslami as vice president and head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).

"Due to your valuable managerial experiences, I appoint you vice president and head of the Atomic Energy Organization," Pezeshkian said in his appointment announcement carried by state media.

Eslami, 67, has served the two posts since August 2021 in the administration of late President Ebrahim Raisi, whose term came to a premature end due to his death in a helicopter crash on May 19.

Efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal commenced in April 2021 in Vienna, Austria, but despite multiple rounds of negotiations, no substantial progress has been reported since the last talks in August 2022.■