Foreign ministers from Germany, France and Britain, along with the European Union’s foreign policy chief, are scheduled to hold talks on Friday with Iranian representatives over the escalating war between Israel and Iran.
They would be the first formal talks between Iranian and Western officials since Israel and Iran began exchanging strikes last week. But Israeli and American officials will not take part, leaving European officials under no illusions that the meeting will have any immediate influence on the war.
The meeting is set to be held in Geneva, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, was quoted as saying by IRNA, an Iranian state news agency.
A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, Esmail Baghaei, said the meeting would focus on “the nuclear issue and the latest developments in the region.”
