Iran is going to hold talks with three European powers on the controversial nuclear program. The meeting is scheduled to take place in Geneva on Friday (November 29). News of the meeting came days after the UN nuclear watchdog passed a resolution against Tehran. The British news agency Reuters reported this news about Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday.
The news was first reported in a report by Japanese news agency Kyodo. According to reports, the meeting will be held in Geneva on Friday. Britain, France, Germany and the United States have proposed this discussion.
Iranian President Massoud Pezheshkian's government is seeking a solution to the nuclear standoff ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump in January.
A senior Iranian official confirmed Friday's meeting. He said, 'Tehran always thinks that the nuclear issue should be resolved through diplomacy. Iran has never come out of the talks.'
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghai later said the deputy foreign ministers of Iran, France, Germany and Britain would participate in the talks. At this time they will talk about regional problems as well as nuclear issues.
But Baghai did not say where the discussion will take place. When asked about this, a spokesperson for the Swiss Foreign Ministry asked the countries mentioned in the Kyodo report.
Baghai said, “There will be discussion and exchange of views on various regional issues including Palestine, Lebanon and nuclear.”
In 2018, the then-Trump administration pulled out of Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers and reimposed tough sanctions on Iran. The US decision prompted Tehran to violate the nuclear deal's limits, including stockpiling enriched uranium.
Indirect talks between President Joe Biden's administration and Tehran to revive the deal have failed. But on the campaign trail in September, Trump said, 'We have to make a deal. Because its consequences are impossible. We have to make a deal.'
