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Europe and Iran Set Deputy-Level Talks Next Week as Snapback Deadline Nears

Deputy ministers will meet Tuesday to test Iran's willingness to restore verifiable IAEA access.

FILE -Israeli soldiers search through the rubble of residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam, central Israel, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, File)
FILE- Iranians follow a truck, center, carrying the coffins of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard who were killed in an assassination blamed on Israel on Wednesday, during their funeral ceremony at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
FILE - An Iranian security official in protective clothing walks through part of the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the Iranian city of Isfahan, March 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
FILE - Iranian women walk past an anti-aircraft gun, at the conclusion of a rally to support Iran's nuclear programs, in front of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Overview

  • Iran’s foreign minister held a call with his French, German and British counterparts, joined by the EU’s top diplomat, resulting in an agreement to reconvene Tuesday at deputy foreign minister level.
  • France, Germany and the UK reiterated that time is very short and signaled they are prepared to trigger UN snapback sanctions by August 31 absent a credible plan, with their authority under Resolution 2231 expiring in October.
  • Restoring International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring is the central demand after Tehran suspended cooperation in July and enrichment remains around 60 percent; an Iranian delegation is also engaging the IAEA in Vienna, according to diplomatic sources.
  • Iran rejects the Europeans’ legal standing to use snapback and warns of consequences, while Russia and China publicly oppose the move and Tehran says it has coordinated joint countermeasures with them.
  • The United States tightened pressure with new sanctions targeting an oil‑smuggling network linked to Iranian crude exports, adding economic strain as Europe weighs reimposing UN penalties.