JERUSALEM: Iran’s Foreign Minister and chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi said Israel’s strikes against his country “deal a blow” to diplomacy during a call Monday with his French, British, and German counterparts.
“The Israeli aggression against Iran in the midst of nuclear negotiations with the United States is a blow to diplomacy,” Abbas Araghchi said during a call reported by his ministry with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, the United Kingdom’s David Lammy, Germany’s Johann Wadephul, and the European Union’s head of foreign affairs Kaja Kallas.
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These three countries and the EU, along with China and Russia, signed a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, but the United States later unilaterally withdrew.