Iran’s FM says ready to resume ‘fair’ nuclear talks if West ‘shows seriousness, goodwill’

By AFP 29 August 2025, 1:48 am

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This handout photograph taken and released by the German Federal Foreign Office on June 20, 2025 shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (2nd-L) during a meeting on Tehran's nuclear program, with Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, the European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas and Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. (Handout/ German Federal Foreign Office/AFP)

Iran is ready to resume “fair ” negotiations over its disputed nuclear program if the West shows goodwill, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says hours after three European powers triggered the process to reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran.

“Araghchi reaffirmed Iran’s readiness to resume fair and balanced diplomatic negotiations, on the condition that the other parties show seriousness and goodwill and avoid actions that harm the chances of success,” he says in a letter sent to European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.