{"id":3527,"date":"2025-06-20T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:00:10","slug":"european-powers-urge-iran-to-return-to-nuclear-talks-amid-war-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/20\/european-powers-urge-iran-to-return-to-nuclear-talks-amid-war-threat","title":{"rendered":"European Powers Urge Iran to Return to Nuclear Talks Amid War Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

GENEVA: European foreign ministers will meet Iran\u2019s top negotiator on Friday in a last-ditch effort to revive stalled nuclear diplomacy, even as the United States weighs joining Israeli military strikes against Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a rare joint appeal earlier this week, Britain, France, and Germany\u2014collectively known as the E3\u2014alongside the European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief, urged Iranian envoy Abbas Araqchi to pursue de-escalation. The conversation led to an agreement for in-person talks, requested by Iran, to be held in Geneva.<\/p>\n

The diplomatic outreach comes as tensions in the Middle East spiral following Israel\u2019s Operation Rising Lion, an unprecedented wave of strikes launched on June 12 against Iran\u2019s nuclear and ballistic infrastructure. Iran has since retaliated, raising fears of a wider regional war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranians can\u2019t sit down with the Americans whereas we can,\u201d a European diplomat noted. \u201cOur message is simple: return to the table before the worst-case scenario unfolds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Geneva, symbolic as the birthplace of the initial 2013 accord between Iran and global powers, now hosts this critical meeting under the looming threat of conflict. The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which limited Iran\u2019s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, has been severely eroded following U.S. withdrawal and recent hostilities.<\/p>\n

While expectations for a breakthrough remain low, European diplomats emphasize the urgency of engagement. \u201cThe war will end at some point,\u201d one said. \u201cBut Iran\u2019s nuclear knowledge can\u2019t be bombed away. The threat will persist unless diplomacy resumes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iranian officials echoed the call for talks but accused the West of failing to rein in Israel. \u201cIran remains committed to diplomacy as the only path to resolving disputes\u2014but diplomacy is under attack,\u201d said an Iranian official, urging the E3 to press Israel to halt its strikes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, international pressure on Iran continues to mount. Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s (IAEA) Board of Governors passed a resolution accusing Iran of violating its non-proliferation obligations. European powers have hinted at referring Iran to the UN Security Council if progress stalls further.<\/p>\n

With the 2015 nuclear deal set to expire in October, European nations are also considering triggering the \u201csnapback\u201d mechanism\u2014reimposing UN sanctions. Diplomats say the E3 may launch this process by the end of August if diplomacy fails to yield results.<\/p>\n

Iran has warned against such a move, calling it a provocation with \u201cserious consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GENEVA: European foreign ministers will meet Iran\u2019s top negotiator on Friday in a last-ditch effort to revive stalled nuclear diplomacy, even as the United States weighs joining Israeli military strikes against Tehran. In a rare joint appeal earlier this week, Britain, France, and Germany\u2014collectively known as the E3\u2014alongside the European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief, urged …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[300,1444,1742,245,1741],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-diplomacy","tag-europe","tag-geneva","tag-iran","tag-nuclear-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}