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Monday, June 16, 2025
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Monday, June 16, 2025
Iranian FM tells European counterparts Israeli strikes ‘deal a blow’ to diplomacy
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (C) gives a statement during his visit to the mausoleum of slain Lebanese Hezbollah's Leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, on June 3, 2025. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
Iran’s Foreign Minister and chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi says Israel’s strikes against his country “deal a blow” to diplomacy, during a call today with his French, British and German counterparts.
“The Israeli aggression against Iran in the midst of nuclear negotiations with the United States is a blow to diplomacy,” Abbas Araghchi says during a call reported by his ministry with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, the United Kingdom’s David Lammy, Germany’s Johann Wadephul and the European Union’s head of foreign affairs Kaja Kallas.
These three countries and the EU, along with China and Russia, signed a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, but the United States later unilaterally withdrew.
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