DUBAI (Reuters) – The semi-official Iranian Students News Agency quoted Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi as saying on Wednesday that the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and three European countries will be held on January 13 in Geneva.
Iran held talks on its controversial nuclear program in November 2024 with Britain, France and Germany.
These discussions, the first since the US elections, came after Tehran's anger at the European-backed resolution that accused Iran of poor cooperation with the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency.
Tehran responded to the decision by informing the International Atomic Energy Agency that it plans to install more uranium enrichment centrifuges in its enrichment plants.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, told Reuters in December that Iran was “significantly” accelerating uranium enrichment to a purity of up to 60 percent, closer to the approximately 90 percent level of purity for making weapons. Tehran denies seeking to possess nuclear weapons and says its program is peaceful.
In 2018, the then-Donald Trump administration exited the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with six major powers and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran to violate the agreement's nuclear limits, through steps such as rebuilding stockpiles of enriched uranium, and enriching it to fissile purity. higher. Installing advanced centrifuges to speed up the production process.
Indirect talks between the administration of US President Joe Biden and Tehran to try to revive the agreement failed, but Trump said during his election campaign in September: “We have to make an agreement, because the consequences are impossible. We have to make an agreement.” .
