Overview
- Deputy foreign ministers from Iran, Germany, France and the U.K. will meet in Istanbul on Friday, with the venue and timing to be confirmed in the coming days.
- Berlin, Paris and London have insisted they will reimpose UN sanctions on Iran via the snapback mechanism unless substantive results emerge by the end of August.
- Iran’s leadership maintains that its nuclear program is exclusively for civilian energy purposes and has formally contested the E3’s authority at the United Nations.
- Negotiations were suspended in mid-June after coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan nuclear facilities sparked a 12-day conflict.
- Iranian adviser Ali Larijani held talks with President Putin in Moscow to review regional tensions and Tehran’s nuclear dossier ahead of the Istanbul meeting.