Iran Nuclear Talks Delayed: France’s Official Announcement

The meeting scheduled for Monday, May 2, 2025, between the U.S., UK, France, and Germany regarding Iran’s nuclear program has been postponed. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced that such a high-level meeting would be meaningless at this time, as the prior planned encounter between Tehran and Washington had already been canceled. ‘A technical-level meeting was planned before the high-level discussions between the U.S. and Iran. Since the latter is no longer happening, the technical-level meeting is now irrelevant, at least for now,’ stated Barrot. The talks between Washington and Tehran aimed to reach an agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. A fourth round of negotiations, set to take place in Rome on Saturday, will be rescheduled, Oman announced today, having mediated previous rounds of U.S.-Iran talks. France, the UK, and Germany are among the three European countries that signed the 2015 international agreement with China, Russia, the U.S., and the EU to control Iran’s nuclear program. In 2018, Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from this agreement.