TEHRAN
\nNuclear talks scheduled for Tuesday between Iran and Britain, France and Germany will be held in Geneva, Iranian state media reported. \u201cOn Tuesday, Iran and the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, along with the European Union, will hold a new round of talks at the level of deputy foreign ministers in Geneva,\u201d state television said on Monday.
\nThe meeting will be the second since Iran\u2019s 12-day war with Israel in mid-June, during which the United States carried out strikes against Tehran\u2019s nuclear facilities. The previous round of talks was held in Istanbul on July 25. It comes after Iran suspended cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog following the war with Israel, with Tehran pointing to the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s failure to condemn Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear facilities.
\nThe unprecedented bombing by Israel and the retaliation by Iran during the 12-day war derailed Tehran\u2019s nuclear negotiations with Washington. The European trio have threatened to trigger a \u201csnapback mechanism\u201d under the 2015 nuclear deal which would reimpose UN sanctions that were lifted under the agreement, unless Iran agrees to curb its uranium enrichment and restore cooperation with IAEA inspectors.
\nIran disputes the legality of invoking the clause, accusing the Europeans of not honouring their commitments under the accord. Britain, France and Germany, along with China, Russia, and the United States, reached an agreement with Iran in 2015 under a deal formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA.
\nThe deal provided Iran with sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme to guarantee that Tehran could not develop a nuclear weapon \u2014 something it has always denied wanting to do.But Washington\u2019s unilateral withdrawal from the accord in 2018 during President Donald Trump\u2019s first term in office, and the reimposition of biting economic sanctions prompted Iran to begin rolling back on its own commitments, particularly on uranium enrichment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN Nuclear talks scheduled for Tuesday between Iran and Britain, France and Germany will be held in Geneva, Iranian state media reported. \u201cOn Tuesday, Iran and the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, along with the European Union, will hold a new round of talks at the level of deputy foreign ministers in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-498940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n