The United States and Iran announced Friday that they would start indirect talks through intermediaries next week in a bid to get both countries back into an accord limiting Iran’s nuclear program, nearly three years after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the deal. State Department spokesperson Ned Price called the resumption of negotiations, scheduled for Tuesday in Vienna, Austria, “a healthy step forward.” “These remain early days, and we don’t anticipate an immediate breakthrough as there will be difficult discussions ahead,” Price said. Tehran has ruled out face-to-face bilateral talks with the United States, something Price has signaled Washington would be open to. “No Iran-US meeting. Unnecessary,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter, confirming that Iranian negotiators would take part in a virtual meeting on Tuesday with major European powers. “Aim: Rapidly finalize sanction-lifting & nuclear measures for choreographed removal of all sanctions, followed …