At war with Israel, Iran urges new diplomacy in Geneva and the U.N. Security Council
Source: NPR
Updated June 20, 2025 2:40 PM ET
PARIS — Foreign ministers from the United Kingdom, France and Germany met with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva Friday, marking the most significant known diplomatic talks between Tehran and Western governments since Israel launched a surprise offensive against Iran one week ago.
"We were attacked in the midst of an ongoing diplomatic process," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said before the United Nations Human Rights Council, before the meeting. "We were supposed to meet with the Americans on June 15 to craft a very promising agreement for peaceful resolution of the issues fabricated over our peaceful nuclear program."
The meeting comes on a day of renewed efforts to find diplomatic pathways to the crisis, as the United Nations Security Council simultaneously convened in New York to discuss the issue as well, even as Israel and Iran continued to carry out strikes on one another.
The Geneva talks revive the trio of European countries known as the "E3," which led previous negotiations with Iran in the early 2000s and helped broker the 2015 nuclear deal under then-President Barack Obama's administration. President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal in his first term.
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