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Europe and Iran Set Deputy-Level Nuclear Talks for Tuesday as Snapback Deadline Nears

European governments have warned they will restore UN sanctions at month’s end absent verifiable steps from Tehran.

Das Atomkraftwerk Buschehr im Iran
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Der chinesische Außenminister Wang Yi (Mitte) bei einem Treffen mit dem russischen Vize-Außenminister Sergej Rjabkow (rechts) und dem iranischen Vize-Außenminister Kazeem Gharibabadi (links).

Overview

  • E3 foreign ministers and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas held a call with Iran’s foreign minister before agreeing to resume talks next week.
  • A meeting of deputy foreign ministers is scheduled for Tuesday, according to a statement from Iran’s foreign ministry.
  • Germany, France and the United Kingdom have threatened to trigger the JCPOA snapback of UN sanctions if no verifiable agreement is reached by the end of August.
  • Germany’s Johann Wadephul said the snapback measures would not be allowed to lapse without a durable, inspectable deal, and France’s Jean-Noël Barrot stressed that time is short.
  • Russia’s Mikhail Ulyanov and China’s foreign ministry criticized the snapback threat, while Western concern persists over Iran’s near-weapons-grade enrichment and Tehran rejects the sanctions as illegitimate, with talks strained by June’s Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iranian sites.