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The Istanbul meeting was the first after the strikes of Israel and the USA on Iran, which were directed against key nuclear and military facilities.
According to Reuters, Iran has refused the proposals to continue the UN resolution that ratifies the 2015 nuclear agreement.
European countries, together with China and Russia, are the parties to the 2015 agreement, from which the United States came out in 2018, which abolished sanctions against Iran in exchange for restricting its nuclear program. The deadline is October 18, when the resolution governing this agreement expires.
A few minutes before the negotiations began, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Iran Bagai said IRNA State Information Agency that Iran considers talking to continue the UN Security Council resolution 2231 “meaningless and unfounded”.
“Inactivity E3 is not an option,” said AFP a European source, noting that Tehran will remind you during the meeting that the fast return window is closed within a few months.
The source reported that Europeans are preparing to activate the mechanism “in the absence of negotiation” and called on Iran to make “clear gestures” to restore cooperation with the nuclear supervisory body of the UN.
On the eve of the negotiations on Friday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran Esmael Bakai, stated that the meeting would be “a test for realism for Europeans and a valuable opportunity to correct their views on the nuclear issue of Iran”, reports the IRNA news agency.
The Chair Rafael Grosssey is optimistic that nuclear inspections can be restored this year and it is important to discuss the technical details now.
The United States held five rounds of negotiations with Iran before their air strikes in June, which, according to US President Donald Trump, “destroyed” the Iran program aimed at obtaining a nuclear bomb.
Iran denies the desire for nuclear weapons and claims that its nuclear program is intended exclusively for civilian purposes.