U.S. says awaits constructive response from Iran on nuclear deal

FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Vienna, Austria May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

The United States awaits a constructive response from Iran on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal that drops "extraneous" issues, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday in a possible reference to Tehran's demand that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps be dropped from a U.S. terrorism list.

(Reporting By Christopher Gallager, Arshad Mohammed and Daphne Psaledakis)