FRANCE’S foreign minister told his newly-appointed Iranian counterpart in a telephone call that it was urgent for Tehran to return to nuclear negotiations immediately, the French foreign ministry has said in a statement.
“The minister underlined the importance and the urgency of an immediate resumption of negotiations, interrupted by Iran since June,” the foreign ministry said after the conversation between Jean-Yves Le Drian and Hossein Amirabdollahian.
Le Drian expressed his concern with regard to all the nuclear activities carried out by Iran in violation of a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Iran has gradually violated limits in the agreement since Washington abandoned it in 2018.