(VOVWORLD) - Iran will hold talks with the UK, France, Germany, and the European Union on Friday to revive a stalled 2015 nuclear deal.
 Centrifuge machines at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran. (Photo: GettyImage/VNA) |
The talks, to take place in Geneva, will coincide with Donald Trump's return to the White House in January. Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – in 2018 during his first administration.
Talks to salvage the JCPOA began in Vienna, Austria, in 2021, with the intention of exploring Washington’s willingness to rejoin the deal and remove anti-Iran sanctions. Little progress had been made after multiple rounds of talks. The last round was in August, 2022.
The new talks, with the EU acting as mediator, will be the first since Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took office in July, succeeding Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May.