📱 Scrolling through your phone? Here’s the big one: the E3 (France, Britain & Germany) just sat down with Iran in Geneva this Tuesday—on a mission to revive the 2015 nuclear deal before a UN resolution expires on October 18.
⏳ What’s at stake? That resolution gives the E3 the power to “snap back” UN sanctions—basically hitting the reset button if Iran’s treaty obligations are breached. Once it sunsets, they lose that lever.
🤝 Flex Move: The E3 is primed to trigger snapback in the coming days… unless Iran greenlights resumed UN inspections and agrees to broader talks, including with the United States.
⚡ High Tension: Tehran has warned of a “harsh response” if sanctions are reimposed. Talks come amid lingering anger over June’s bombing of Iran’s enrichment sites—blamed on the US and Israel—which took out key facilities.
📢 Meanwhile, Iranian Deputy FM Kazem Gharibabadi went public on X, calling on the E3 and the UN Security Council to “give diplomacy the time and space it needs.”
🔍 Inspection update: Iran insists its damage control plan is underway but hasn’t let the IAEA (the UN’s nuclear watchdog) back into affected sites, citing safety concerns. The status of its enriched uranium stockpile? Still under wraps.
👀 Eyes on Geneva: IAEA chief Rafael Grossi confirmed that the first team of inspectors has just touched down—but they’re still hashing out the details of how inspections will restart.
➡️ The takeaway? With the clock ticking toward mid-October, all eyes are on whether savvy diplomacy can buy extra time—or if snapback sanctions will snap back into place. Stay tuned! 🌏✨
Reference(s):
cgtn.com
