Overview

• Iran’s Abbas Araghchi and Russia’s Sergei Lavrov held a Friday call on the nuclear file, discussing E3 threats to restore UN measures before Resolution 2231 expires on October 18.
• Following a separate joint call with the E3 foreign ministers and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, the parties agreed to restart talks next Tuesday at the deputy foreign minister level.
• Iran asserted the E3 lack legal and moral authority to invoke the JCPOA snapback mechanism and warned that any move to do so would have consequences.
• The JCPOA’s snapback provision would reinstate prior UN Security Council sanctions, including arms restrictions, travel bans, asset freezes, and export controls.
• The scheduled talks build on several rounds since last year, with the most recent session held in Istanbul in late July.