Iran to hold talks on nuclear program with France, Germany and the United Kingdom on January 13 in Geneva, an Iranian media reported on Wednesday. It will be a “dialogue and consultation and not negotiations,” said Iranian diplomat Kazem Gharibabadi, Tehran’s envoy to the meeting held in Switzerland in November, as quoted by the Isna agency.
It will be a “dialogue and a consultation and not negotiations”said Iranian diplomat Kazem Gharibabadi, Tehran’s envoy to the meeting held in Switzerland in November, as quoted by the Isna agency. The November meeting was also held with great discretion in Geneva.
The January appointment will take place a week before he takes office as the new president of the United States. Donald Trump, architect of the so-called “maximum pressure” policy towards Iran during his first term (2017-2021).
In November, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, along with the United States, promoted a resolution criticizing Iran for its lack of cooperation on nuclear issue at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
In response, Tehran announced the launch of additional centrifuges to further enrich uranium as part of its nuclear program.
Iranians defend the right to use nuclear energy for civil purposes, in particular to generate electricity, and they deny that they want to obtain nuclear weapons, something that Western countries doubt.
According to the IAEA, Iran is the only country without possess the nuclear bomb which enriches uranium to 60%, close to the 90% necessary to manufacture it.
Donald Trump decided in his first government to withdraw USA of the agreement reached in 2015 by Iran and six world powers by which the Islamic Republic committed to limiting its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.
