Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says he is ready to travel to Europe to talk about Tehran’s nuclear program, and France has indicated that European powers are also ready for dialogue if Tehran shows that it is seriously compromised.
Iran is looking to take advantage of the impulse of nuclear negotiations with the United States, which will resume in Oman on Saturday, and after conversations with Russia and China this week. His message to the European powers that were part of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement suggests that Tehran keeps his options open.
Since September, Tehran and the three European powers known as E3, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, have already made several rounds of discussions about their ties and the nuclear problem.
The most recently in March was hero at the technical level and observed the parameters of a future agreement to ensure a reversal of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting the sanctions against him.
European diplomats said they were in a new meeting with Iran Althegh, the impulse towards conversations seemed to stop when Tehran began indirect negotiations about the Ital program with the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, this month.
Trump, who abandoned the historic 2015 pact between Tehran and the world powers in 2018 duration in his first term, has threatened to attack Iran unless he reaches a new agreement quickly and the agreement prevents him from developing a nuclear weapon.
“Iran’s relationships with E3 … have experienced ups and downs in recent history. We like them or not, they are currently low,” Araghchi wrote in X.
“Once again I propose diplomacy. After my recent consultations in Moscow and Beijing, I am ready to take the first step with the visits to Paris, Berlin and London … The ball is now on the E3 court.”
‘A diplomatic solution’
European powers have seen that their ties with Iran worsen on other issues, including their ballistic missile program, the arrest of foreign citizens and support for Russia in their war in Ucrine.
When asked about Araghchi’s comments, the spokesman for the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, Christophe Lemoine, said that E3 favored dialogue but wanted to see how serious Iran was.
“The only solution is a diplomatic solution, and Iran must participate resolutely in this path, and it is a proposal that E3 has presented many times, so we will continue with the dialogue with the Iranians,” he said at a press conference.
Germany and Britain did not immediately comment on the matter.
The United States did not tell European countries about nuclear conversations in Oman before Trump announced them, they even have a key card about the possible reimposition of UN sanctions against Tehran.
However, the main technical negotiator of the United States, Michael Anton, informed E3 diplomats in Paris on April 17, according to two European diplomats, a suggestion that coordination has improved.
On Saturday, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Tehran, the spokesman of the Tehran Foreign Ministry will take place on Saturday, said the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Tehran, with a third round of high -level nuclear conversations that are due the same day in Oman.
Anton, who was spokesman for the White House National Security Council, the duration of Trump’s first mandate from 2017 to 2021, will lead a team of approximately one dose to United States government officials to negotiate.
Western countries have suspended for a long time that Iran is looking for nuclear weapons, which has constantly denied. The threat of renewed sanctions intends to pressure Tehran in concessions, making detailed discussions about the strategy between Americans and vital Europeans, according to the Reuters news agency cited diplomats.
Because the United States resigned from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, it cannot initiate its mechanism to impose sanctions, called Snapback, in the United Nations Security Council.
That makes the E3, the only other participants in the 2015 agreement, capable and interest in pursuing Snapback.
According to the diplomats cited by Reuters, E3 diplomats seek to trigger Snapback in August instead of a previous period of June if a substantial agreement cannot be found by then. That opportunity expires on October 18 when the 2015 agreement ends.
