TEHRAN, Iran — Nuclear talks scheduled for Tuesday between Iran and Britain, France and Germany can be held in Geneva, Iranian state media reported.
“On Tuesday, Iran and the three European events to the 2015 nuclear deal, together with the European Union, will maintain a brand new spherical of talks on the stage of deputy international ministers in Geneva,” state tv mentioned on Monday.
The assembly would be the second since Iran’s 12-day warfare with Israel in mid-June, throughout which the USA additionally carried out strikes towards Tehran’s nuclear amenities. The earlier spherical of talks was held in Istanbul on July 25.
The European trio have threatened to set off a “snapback mechanism” below the 2015 nuclear deal which might reimpose UN sanctions that have been lifted below the settlement, except Iran agrees to curb its uranium enrichment and restore cooperation with IAEA inspectors.
The Islamic Republic suspended nuclear negotiations with the USA after the US and Israel bombed its nuclear websites through the 12-day warfare in June. Israel mentioned the sweeping assault on Iran’s prime navy leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment websites and ballistic missile program was needed to stop Tehran from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.
Iran retaliated towards Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and round 1,100 drones at Israel. The assaults killed 31 individuals and wounded over 3,000 in Israel, based on well being officers and hospitals.
Iranians wave the flags of Iran and Palestine as they march throughout a rally in solidarity with Palestinians and in condemnation of Israel and the US, after Friday prayers in Tehran, on July 25, 2025. (AFP)
Iran disputes the legality of invoking the snapback clause, accusing the Europeans of not honoring their commitments below the accord.
Britain, France and Germany, together with China, Russia, and the USA, reached an settlement with Iran in 2015 below a deal formally referred to as the Joint Complete Plan of Motion or JCPOA.
The deal supplied Iran with sanctions reduction in change for curbs on its nuclear program to ensure that Tehran couldn’t develop a nuclear weapon — one thing it has at all times denied desirous to do.
However Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the accord in 2018 throughout US President Donald Trump’s first time period in workplace, and the reimposition of biting financial sanctions prompted Iran to start rolling again by itself commitments, significantly on uranium enrichment.
On the time of the US withdrawal, London, Paris and Berlin reaffirmed their dedication to the settlement and mentioned they supposed to proceed buying and selling with Iran. In consequence, UN and European sanctions weren’t reinstated, whilst Trump restored US sanctions.
An Iranian flag flutters in entrance of the Iranian Consulate, the place Iranian diplomats meet counterparts from Germany, Britain and France for renewed nuclear talks, in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 25, 2025. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)
However the mechanism envisaged by European nations to compensate for the return of US sanctions has struggled to materialize, and plenty of Western firms have been compelled to go away Iran, which is going through excessive inflation and an financial disaster.
The deadline for activating the snapback mechanism ends in October, however based on the Monetary Instances, the Europeans have provided to increase the deadline if Iran resumes nuclear talks with Washington and re-engages with the IAEA.
Iran’s Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi has mentioned that the Europeans don’t have any proper to take action.
Iran has constantly denied in search of to amass nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, it enriched uranium to ranges that don’t have any peaceable utility, obstructed worldwide inspectors from checking its nuclear amenities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities. Israel mentioned that forward of the warfare, Iran had taken steps towards weaponization.
