Overview
- French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot will meet Abbas Araghchi in Paris on Wednesday to discuss the nuclear file, regional issues and consular matters.
- France says it will urge Iran to meet its obligations to the IAEA and restart cooperation after inspector access was curtailed following June strikes on nuclear sites.
- Iran has declared void a September arrangement with the IAEA for renewed inspections and uranium accounting after Britain, France and Germany triggered UN sanctions.
- Paris will press for the return of two French citizens who were released in Iran but remain barred from leaving and are staying in the French embassy in Tehran.
- Iran plans to raise the case of student Mahdieh Esfandiari in France, as Araghchi reiterates Tehran is not in a hurry to resume indirect talks with the United States.