(VOVworld) – Iran began a new round of talks with the EU in Vienna on Tuesday before talks with the P5+1 group on drafting the text of a final deal on Tehran's nuclear program.

EU political director Helga Schmid (C-L) sits next to Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi (R) at the opening of nuclear talks between Iran and members of the P5+1 group on March 5, 2015 in Montreux.(Photo: AFP)

Iranian Deputy Foreign Ministers Abbas Araqchi and Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi and top EU envoy Helga Schmid participated in the talks.  On May 15^th Deputy foreign ministers and political directors from the P5+1 group will join the talks to hammer out a final deal. Araqchi expressed his hope that the talks will cement a deal before the June 30^th deadline.