EU says negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program should ‘restart as soon as possible’

By AFP 1 July 2025, 10:21 pm

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This handout picture provided by the Iranian foreign ministry shows Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the funeral of Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami and other military commanders, who were killed in Israeli strikes, on June 28, 2025. (Iranian Foreign Ministry / AFP)

The EU’s top diplomat tells Iran’s foreign minister that Brussels is willing to facilitate a return to negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program after US and Israeli strikes.

“Negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program should restart as soon as possible,” and “cooperation” with the International Atomic Energy Agency must resume, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas writes on X after a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. “The EU is ready to facilitate this.”

Kallas further warns Tehran that “any threats to pull out of the non-proliferation treaty don’t help to lower tensions.”

The call came after Araghchi ruled out a quick resumption of talks with the United States and said Tehran will first need assurances it will not be attacked again.

The United States and Iran were holding nuclear talks when Israel hit Iranian nuclear sites and military infrastructure. The United States joined the campaign by bombing three nuclear sites — Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan — on June 21.