European talks with Iran end with no agreement to continue negotiations
Iran has confirmed to European ministers in Geneva on Friday night they will not hold peace talks with the US while the Israeli offensive continues.Negotiations between the Iranian foreign minister and the foreign ministers of the UK, France and Germany, plus the EU's High Representative, have broken up with no agreement on when or where follow up talks could take place and confirmation from the Iranian's they will not hold talks with the US while Israel continues to bomb.The European 3and EU 1 told Iran's Abbas Araghchi that 'the threat of military action [from the US] is real and approaching but a diplomatic pathway remains open,' said a source.
The four European, who included David Lammy fresh from his talks yesterday in the Whitehouse, made clear their 'long standing concerns about Iran's expansion of its nuclear programme, which has no credible civilian purpose and is in violation of almost all JCPoA provisions [the provisions of the last nuclear monitoring deal].'The Europeans said they wanted discussions to continue in the hope of finding g a negotiated solution but there was 'no agreement where or in what format'.The main standoff was the the Iranians said they could not seriously negotiate while Israel continued its offensive whereas the Europeans said a ceasefire could only happen if the Iranians come to the table for talks.Lammy will brief US secretary of state Marco Rubio Ave special envoy Steve Witkoff about all this over the weekend.
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