August 22, 2025 1:26 PM

Iran, European powers to discuss nuclear talks, sanctions, IRNA reports

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will have a joint telephone call with his French, British and German counterparts on Friday to discuss nuclear talks and sanctions, state news agency IRNA reported. The three European powers have threatened to activate United Nations (UN) sanctions on Iran under a "snapback" mechanism if Iran does not return to the negotiating table over its nuclear programme. The countries, along with the United States, contend that Iran is using the nuclear programme to ...

July 25, 2025 2:16 PM

Iran and Europeans begin nuclear talks with questions over future UN sanctions

Iran pushed back on Friday on suggestions of extending a U.N. resolution that ratifies a 2015 nuclear deal as it began the first face-to-face talks with Western powers since Israel and the U.S. bombed it last month. Delegations from Iran, the European Union and the E3 group of France, Britain and Germany, arrived for talks at the Iranian consulate in Istanbul. The European countries, along with China and Russia, are the remaining parties to a 2015 deal - from which the U.S. withdrew in 2018 - ...

September 23, 2024 5:38 PM

Iran ready for nuclear talks in New York ‘if other parties are willing’, foreign minister says

Iran is ready to start nuclear negotiations on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York if "other parties are willing", Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday in a video published on his Telegram channel. The United States, under then-President Donald Trump, withdrew in 2018 from a nuclear accord signed in 2015 between Iran and six world powers, which restricted Tehran's nuclear programme. Indirect talks between the U.S. and Tehran to revive the deal have stalled...