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The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the United States will hold four-way talks Tuesday on Iran’s nuclear programme, the French presidency said, with Tehran’s oil exports as one of the issues to be raised. It comes as Iran’s foreign ministry and the EU’s chief diplomat flagged the resumption of nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran.
The talks between EU leaders and the US will come on the sidelines of the G7 gathering of the world’s top industrialised powers, which will also discuss Iran’s nuclear ambitions at a dinner during a session on foreign policies.
Among topics to be broached are the “question of oil” and “a willingness to stop proliferation”, said a senior French official, without giving further details.
Iran “will be raised in the ‘quad’, we have a meeting in this format on Tuesday morning,” said the official.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Saturday that “we are prepared to resume talks in the coming days. What is important for Iran is to fully receive the economic benefits of the 2015 accord,” adding that he had held a “long but positive meeting” with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said he could not speak on the status of the negotiations. “But there’s nothing changed about our position that a nuclear deal is the best way to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons status,” Kirby told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One. “We want to get them back into compliance.”
The pact appeared close to being revived in March when the EU – which is coordinating negotiations – invited foreign ministers representing the accord’s parties to Vienna to finalise an agreement after 11 months of indirect talks between Tehran and President Joe Biden’s administration.
But the talks have since been bogged…
Source : france24
