European officials are trying to find a solution to the Iran issue
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Iran says Israel hit four cities overnight, including I sfhan where the nuclear site is. Iranian authorities said there was no leak of hazardous materials, according to the country’s state media. The Israeli military confirmed it targeted centrifuge production facilities there, as part of its attempts to destroy Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Iranian media also said Israeli strikes killed five members of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Israel and Iran traded more strikes overnight into Friday, with the Israeli military saying it struck dozens of Iranian military targets around Tehran and western Iran.
Those assurances, according to Wadephul, would mean Iran renouncing enrichment of nuclear material that would lead to weaponization and would also include reducing its missile program.
Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, meanwhile, said Berlin was open to further discussions with Iran if there is a “serious willingness” from Tehran to provide assurances on its nuclear and missile programs.
In France, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot defended his country’s neutral stance, saying on national television Thursday that “France is always on the side of international law” and “has not participated in any preventive war.” 1,000 French nationals are in Iran, he said.
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Araghchi said that the demand for an end to the war had begun. “It shows how effective the resistance of the Iranian people has been and will be.”
Iran’s Araghchi told his French, Germans, and British counterparts that he would not negotiate with the US while Israel continued to attack Iran, since they were open to further discussions.
French and German politicians are trying to get Iran to resume talks about its nuclear program. Iran, for its part, has signaled resistance while under attack.
Trump’s statement, read out loud by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday, tamped down speculation that the U.S. was poised to assist Israel in its offensive by striking an Iranian nuclear facility.
David Lammy, British Foreign Secretary, had a meeting Thursday with the Secretary of State and the president’s special envoy to the Middle East.
Lammy said that a diplomatic solution must be achieved within the next two weeks since President Trump’s announcement that he will make a decision about strike on Iran by early July.
The talks revive the European trio known as the “E3,” which led previous negotiations with Iran in the early 2000s and helped broker the 2015 nuclear deal under former President Barack Obama’s administration.
One week after Israel launched its surprise attack on Iran, the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France and Germany will meet with their Iranian counterpart in the Swiss city of Lausanne.
The war between Israel and Iran began its ninth day Saturday as the two countries continued to trade missile attacks, and Iran’s foreign minister warned against the U.S. getting actively involved.
After Iranian officials held several diplomatic meetings in New York, Istanbul, and Lausanne on Friday, fighting broke out, even as President Trump considers launching an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned against any involvement in the conflict by the U.S. military. He said that it would be very dangerous for everyone.
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The Israeli military says that Iran’s missiles hit Haifa on Friday. It said there was no major damage from further strikes fired at Israel Saturday.
Meanwhile, officials from member countries of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation have been meeting in Istanbul and discussing the conflict and the potential fallout from a widening war.