Iran announced this Sunday that its leaders would discuss with France, Germany and the United Kingdom on November 29.
On the program? Iranian nuclear power, in particular, after the resolution pointing out Tehran's lack of cooperation in the matter.
Iranian nuclear power at the heart of the debates. Iran will hold discussions on its nuclear program on Friday, November 29 with France, Germany and the United Kingdom, three countries which have submitted a text condemning Tehran's supposed lack of cooperation on this issue. Paris, Berlin and London, associated with Washington, are at the origin of the text approved by 19 of the 35 member states of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tehran's nuclear program.
This text, which formally calls Iran to order for its lack of cooperation in the nuclear issue, provoked the ire of Tehran. In retaliation, Iran announced the commissioning of “new advanced centrifuges” for its nuclear program. What sparked the “deep concerns” of France and its allies. Tehran defends the right to nuclear power for civilian purposes, particularly for energy, but denies wanting to acquire an atomic bomb, which Western countries suspect.
The international situation also on the menu
In 2015, Iran concluded an agreement in Vienna with France, Germany, the United Kingdom, China, Russia and the United States to regulate its nuclear program. In return, the text provided for a reduction in international sanctions against Tehran. But in 2018, Donald Trump, then President of the United States, unilaterally withdrew his country from the agreement – with which Tehran complied, according to the IAEA – and reinstated heavy sanctions against Iran.
In retaliation, Tehran significantly increased its reserves of enriched materials and raised the threshold to 60%, close to the 90% needed to make an atomic weapon, under the IAEA definition. The nuclear agreement, now an empty shell that negotiations have failed to revive and which will expire in October 2025, capped this rate at 3.67%.
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In addition to this file, Iran will discuss the regional and international situation with France, Germany and the United Kingdom, “including the questions of Palestine and Lebanon”said this Sunday in a press release the spokesperson for Iranian diplomacy, Esmaïl Baghaï. The exact location of these discussions was not specified.
