Tehran Weighs European Call for Resumption of Nuclear Talks

Iran is currently evaluating a proposal from three European nations to restart negotiations on its nuclear program, The Caspian Post reports, citing Iranian media.

Following Western media reports suggesting that talks between Iran and the three European countries may resume next week, Iran is considering the request to restart negotiations on the nuclear issue and the lifting of sanctions.

Earlier on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took to X to announce that he had a joint teleconference with E3 FMs & EU HR last night.

The top Iranian diplomat said that in the teleconference, he made the following points clear:

- It was the US that withdrew from a two-year negotiated deal -coordinated by EU in 2015- not Iran; and it was US that left the negotiation table in June this year and chose a military option instead, not Iran.

- Any new round of talks is only possible when the other side is ready for a fair, balanced, and mutually beneficial nuclear deal.

- If EU/E3 want to have a role, they should act responsibly, and put aside the worn-out policies of threat and pressure, including the "snap-back" for which they lack absolutely no moral and legal ground.

On Monday, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said in a press briefing that the so-called snapback mechanism has no legal or political basis, and any threat to invoke it is purely a political maneuver aimed at confronting Iran.

“With recent developments in the past few weeks, resorting to such an unfounded mechanism-lacking legal, ethical, or political grounds-is more meaningless than ever,” he added.

He stressed that Iran still considers itself a party to the JCPOA, and its reduction in commitments was a legitimate response to the United States and other parties’ blatant violations of the deal. This was a right outlined in the JCPOA, he noted.

Baghaei also criticized the European parties for continually trying to exploit the snapback clause while failing to uphold their own obligations under the agreement. “They have no legal or moral standing to activate such a mechanism,” he concluded.