(20 Jun 2025)
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Geneva – 20 June 2025
1. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arriving at the Intercontinental hotel
2. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy arriving at the Intercontinental hotel
3. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul arriving at the Intercontinental hotel
4. The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas arriving at the Intercontinental hotel
5. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot arriving at the Intercontinental hotel
STORYLINE:
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived at a hotel in Geneva Friday for a meeting with his counterparts from France, Germany, the U.K. and the European Union’s foreign policy chief.
Araghchi is holding talks with the top European diplomats about the crisis that centers on concerns about his country’s nuclear program, a week after the long-simmering dispute erupted into war between Israel and Iran.
It is the first face-to-face meeting between Western and Iranian officials since the start of the conflict.
Ahead of the meeting, Araghchi said his country has “nothing to discuss” with the United States as long as Israel continues its strikes on Iran, but is open to “dialogue” with others, though not negotiations.
The war has seen Israeli airstrikes target Iranian nuclear and military sites and Tehran firing back.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that “a window now exists within the next two weeks to achieve a diplomatic solution.” He travelled to Geneva after meeting in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff.
Trump has been weighing whether to attack Iran by striking its well-defended Fordo uranium enrichment facility, which is buried under a mountain and widely considered to be out of reach of all but America’s “bunker-buster” bombs.
The U.S. president said Wednesday that he’ll decide within two weeks whether the military will get directly involved in the war given the “substantial chance” for renewed negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the European diplomats would make a “comprehensive, diplomatic and technical offer of negotiation” to Iran.
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