Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday said that the next round of talks aimed at salvaging Iran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal may resume before the end of this year. The seventh round of talks, which are being held in Vienna, had ended last week at Iran’s request. Those involved said some progress was made, but negotiators haven’t come close to an agreement yet. Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to the Vienna-based international organizations, told news agency TASS after the results of the seventh round of talks that the issue of the date for the resumption is still open. “As far as I understand, there are two options: either to resume the work on Dec. 27, at least the expert level within the framework of the eighth round, or on Jan. 3, when everyone is ready for that,” Ulyanov told the Russian state-owned network. In a statement on Twitter, Ulyanov noted that the …