An Iranian official denied a state media report on Sunday that Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was to meet officials from Britain, France and Germany in Vienna as sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear programme loom again.
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Nournews had reported the talks, without giving a date.
But an Iranian Foreign Ministry official told Reuters that was not the case, with Araqchi heading to New York, not Vienna.
In a bid to avert the reimposition of sanctions on Tehran, Iranian and European ministers engaged in discussions last week but they did not yield breakthroughs, diplomats said.
The three European nations launched a 30-day process at the end of August to reimpose United Nations sanctions. They set conditions for Tehran to meet during September to convince them to delay the so-called “snapback mechanism”.
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The European countries have proposed a conditional delay of up to six months on the reimposition of sanctions on Iran.