Iran participates in nuclear talks in Geneva to avoid all-out war, which it fears most

Published on November 28, 2024 at 05:10. / Modified on November 28, 2024 at 11:40.

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It is in a very tense context that Iran and European states are resuming discussions started in New York in September this Friday in Geneva. Among the six powers which negotiated the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program (JCPOA) concluded in 2015 in Vienna, three countries, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, agreed to resume dialogue with Tehran. The Islamic Republic's news agency, IRNA, sees it as “a step to restore confidence and potentially to resurrect the JCPOA negotiations.” She believes that the Geneva talks are a “crucial opportunity to discuss unnecessary tensions”.

The Geneva meeting for which Switzerland, which represents American interests in Iran, played no role, takes place in a geopolitical framework very different from 2015. The Middle East is in flames and blood. “During Donald Trump's first term in the White House,” explains Clément Therme, lecturer at Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier, “the Europeans wanted at all costs to preserve the nuclear agreement after the withdrawal of the United States in 2018. In the run-up to Trump's second presidency, the Europeans' relationship with Iran has “degraded significantly” due to nuclear power, the role played by Iran in the Middle East, but also the delivery of Iranian drones to Russia in the context of the war in Ukraine, as well as serious human rights violations in the Islamic Republic after the death of young Mahsa Amini.

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