Iran could hold nuclear talks with European powers next week: reports

Iran, Britain, France and Germany could clasp talks adjacent week connected Tehran's atomic programme, Iran's semi-official Tasnim quality bureau reported connected Sunday (July 20, 2025), pursuing warnings by the 3 European countries that nonaccomplishment to resume negotiations would pb to planetary sanctions being reimposed connected Iran.

"The rule of talks has been agreed upon, but consultations are continuing connected the clip and spot of the talks. The state successful which the talks could beryllium held adjacent week has not been finalised," Tasnim reported, quoting a root informed connected the matter.

The study connected imaginable talks comes a fewer days aft the Foreign Ministers of the alleged E3 nations, arsenic good arsenic the European Union's overseas argumentation chief, held their archetypal telephone with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi since Israel and the U.S. attacked Iranian atomic facilities a period ago.

The 3 European countries, on with China and Russia, are the remaining parties to a 2015 atomic woody reached with Iran - from which the United States withdrew successful 2018 - that lifted sanctions connected the Middle Eastern state successful instrumentality for restrictions connected its atomic programme.

The E3 person said they would reconstruct U.N. sanctions connected Tehran via the alleged "snapback mechanism" by the extremity of August if atomic talks that were ongoing betwixt Iran and the U.S. earlier the Israel-Iran aerial warfare bash not resume oregon neglect to nutrient factual results.

"If EU/E3 privation to person a role, they should enactment responsibly, and enactment speech the worn-out policies of menace and pressure, including the 'snap-back' for which they deficiency perfectly motivation and ineligible ground," Araqchi said earlier this week.

The snapback mechanics tin beryllium utilized to reconstruct U.N. sanctions earlier the U.N. Security Council solution enshrining the woody expires connected October 18.

Prior to the Israel-Iran war, Tehran and Washington held 5 rounds of atomic talks mediated by Oman but faced large stumbling blocks specified arsenic uranium enrichment successful Iran, which Western powers privation to bring down to zero to minimise immoderate hazard of weaponisation.

Tehran maintains its atomic programme is solely meant for civilian purposes.