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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Delegations have arrived at Iran’s Istanbul consulate on Friday morning for face-to-face talks between Iran and the so-called E3 group of France, Britain and Germany, Reuters witness said.
Senior diplomats from the E3 group are set to hold talks with Iran’s negotiating team for the first time since U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in June, aiming to gauge Tehran’s appetite for a compromise to avert sanctions.
Ahead of the talks, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said that Tehran’s position remained “firm and steadfast.”
“Our uranium enrichment will continue; we will not give up this right of the Iranian people,” Araqchi said in a video carried by state media, adding that Friday’s talks are “a continuation of previous discussions, and the world must understand that our position is clear and unchanged.”
(Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen and John Irish, Writing by Huseyin Hayatsever, Editing by William Maclean)
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