The US, Britain, Germany and France have agreed to set the end of August as the deadline for concluding a nuclear deal with Iran, otherwise Tehran will “face severe sanctions“, Axios reported, citing three sources.
According to them, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his foreign ministers from London, Berlin and Paris agreed in a phone call on Monday to set the end of August as the deadline for reaching a nuclear deal with Iran. As the sources indicate, otherwise the three European countries plan to launch a mechanism that would renew UN Security Council sanctions lifted under the 2015 agreements.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has made it clear that he is in no hurry to negotiate with Iran, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
"They would like to negotiate. "I'm in no hurry to negotiate because we destroyed their facility," Trump told reporters in Washington yesterday, referring to US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last month.
The US and Iran have been making conflicting statements about a possible resumption of talks between them.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, for example, said last week that his country was ready to negotiate but that the United States needed to "make up for its mistakes."
However, Iran has previously warned that it could withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if sanctions against the country were reimposed.
In 2015, Iran, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Russia, the United States and France signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), ending a crisis that began in 2002. over Western allegations that Tehran is developing nuclear weapons. In 2018, US President Donald Trump announced his withdrawal from the agreement and restored all US sanctions against Iran. In response, in 2020, the Islamic Republic announced a reduction in its commitments under the agreement and restricted access to the country's nuclear facilities by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors.
Iranian and US representatives held five rounds of consultations on the nuclear program from April to May 2025. The negotiation process was frozen due to the start of Israel's 12-day military operation on June 13 and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Representatives of the United Kingdom, Germany and France simultaneously held talks with the Islamic Republic.