Overview

• On June 20, UK Foreign Minister David Lammy, France’s Jean-Noël Barrot and Germany’s Johann Wadephul will meet Iran’s Abbas Araghchi in Geneva
• The E3 ministers will first confer with EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas at Germany’s mission before engaging in the main talks
• European diplomats aim to secure Iranian guarantees that its nuclear program will remain exclusively civilian in exchange for sanctions relief
• The talks follow a series of Israeli strikes on Iranian positions and retaliatory missile launches that have stoked fears of a wider regional war
• Iran insists its program is peaceful and has dismissed the E3 as inept, while Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has backed Israel and warned Tehran of harsher repercussions if it escalates