Overview

• The E3 held their first high-level nuclear dialogue with Iran since mid-June’s US-Israeli strikes on Iranian facilities but secured no substantive agreement.
• European diplomats warned they would invoke the UN’s snapback mechanism to reimpose sanctions by the end of August without verifiable limits on Iran’s enrichment.
• Deputy foreign minister Kasem Gharibabadi set preconditions for substantive talks, demanding formal recognition of Iran’s NPT rights and guarantees against new military action.
• Iran agreed to host a technical team from the International Atomic Energy Agency in the coming weeks, a step toward restoring suspended inspections.
• Brussels and its partners are pressing for an accounting of roughly 400 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium unaccounted for after June’s attacks.