Nuclear Dispute: Iran Urges Talks with Europe - Vienna and Oman as Key Factors

PeopleOther ♦ Published: April 28, 2025; 23:08 ♦ (Vindobona)

In the struggle to save the international nuclear agreement with Iran, Tehran wants to seek a meeting with the European signatory states before a possible new round of talks with the USA. According to diplomats, such a meeting could take place soon if the planned round of negotiations with the United States comes to fruition. In the meantime, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has called on Iran to explain suspicious facilities near its suspected nuclear sites.

Iran has signaled its interest in a meeting with European states in the nuclear dispute before the next planned round of negotiations with the USA. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons; sipo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/siposoft) / Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0 DEED, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)

According to the Reuters news agency, a meeting to this effect is to take place on Friday - assuming the talks with the USA materialize. The European partners, the so-called “E3” - Germany, France, and Great Britain.