Iran, European powers hold nuclear talks in Turkey

Iran met with European powers connected Friday to sermon its atomic negotiations with Washington, portion US President Donald Trump issued a caller menace unless the Iranians "move quickly" towards a deal.

The gathering successful Istanbul followed remarks by Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi informing of "irreversible" consequences if Britain, France and Germany determination to reimpose United Nations sanctions that were lifted nether a landmark 2015 agreement.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi, who attended the talks successful the Turkish city, said successful a station connected X: "We exchanged views and discussed the latest presumption of the indirect atomic negotiations and the lifting of sanctions."

Gharibabadi added that, if necessary, Tehran would conscionable again with the alleged E3 -- the European parties to the 2015 woody on with China, Russia and the United States -- to proceed discussions, aft respective meetings since past year.

Trump had efficaciously torpedoed the woody during his archetypal term, by unilaterally abandoning it successful 2018 and reimposing sanctions connected Iran's banking assemblage and lipid exports.

A twelvemonth later, Iran responded by rolling backmost its ain commitments nether the deal, which provided alleviation from sanctions successful instrumentality for UN-monitored restrictions connected Iran's atomic activities.

Speaking Friday successful Abu Dhabi, Trump said that his medication had handed Iran a connection for a caller agreement, aft 4 rounds of negotiations successful caller weeks.

"They person a proposal, but much importantly, they cognize they person to determination rapidly oregon thing atrocious is going to happen," Trump said.

Araghchi aboriginal wrote connected X that "Iran has not received immoderate written connection from the United States, whether straight oregon indirectly".

He added that an statement tin beryllium reached if Washington lifts sanctions and respects "our rights" -- including to enrich uranium.

"Mark my words: determination is nary script successful which Iran abandons its hard-earned close to enrichment for peaceful purposes," Araghchi said.

The Iran-US talks mediated by Oman were the highest-level interaction betwixt the 2 foes since Washington abandoned the atomic accord.

- 'Sustain diplomacy' -

The 3 European powers person been weighing whether to trigger the 2015 deal's "snapback" mechanism, which would reinstate UN sanctions successful effect to Iranian non-compliance -- an enactment that expires successful October.

Such a stance "risks provoking a planetary atomic proliferation situation that would chiefly impact Europeans themselves", Iran's apical diplomat has warned.

However, penning successful the French play Le Point, helium besides noted that Tehran was "ready to crook the page" successful its relations with Europe.

Gharibabadi said aft Friday's gathering that "Iran and the 3 European countries are determined to prolong and marque optimal usage of diplomacy".

In a station connected X, the UK Foreign Office's governmental director, Christian Turner, said the parties reaffirmed their "commitment to dialogue, welcomed ongoing US/Iran talks, and fixed urgency, agreed to conscionable again."

A US authoritative said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio met connected Friday with the French, British and German nationalist information advisers successful Istanbul for talks connected Iran and Ukraine.

Araghchi has said that the talks with the Europeans and the United States were proceeding connected abstracted track.

China, which held caller talks with Iran connected its atomic programme, said up of Friday's talks that it remained "committed to promoting a governmental and diplomatic colony of the Iran issue".

- 'Getting close' -

Speaking connected a sojourn to Qatar Thursday, Trump said the United States was "getting close" to a woody with Iran that would avert subject action.

"We're not going to beryllium making immoderate atomic particulate successful Iran," helium said.

Since returning to office, Trump has revived his "maximum pressure" argumentation connected Tehran, backing atomic diplomacy but informing of subject enactment if it fails.

Trump has said helium presented Iran's enactment with an "olive branch", adding that it was an connection that would not past forever.

He further threatened to enforce "massive maximum pressure", including driving Iranian lipid exports to zero if talks failed.

Iran presently enriches uranium to 60 percent, acold supra the 3.67-percent bounds acceptable successful the 2015 woody but beneath the 90 percent needed for a atomic warhead.

Tehran insists its close to proceed enriching uranium for peaceful purposes is "non-negotiable" but says it would beryllium unfastened to impermanent restrictions connected however overmuch uranium it enriches and to what level.

On Wednesday, Iran's atomic vigor bureau main Mohammad Eslami reiterated that Tehran "does not question atomic militarisation", adding that enrichment was nether the supervision of the UN atomic watchdog.

"The dismantling of enrichment is not accepted by Iran," helium stressed.

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