EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas mentioned on Friday (August 29, 2025) the approaching weeks provided an “opportunity” to hammer out a diplomatic solution on Iran’s nuclear programme, after European powers triggered a 30-day deadline for sanctions to come again into pressure.
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“We are entering a new phase with these 30 days that is now giving us also the opportunity to really find diplomatic ways to find a solution,” Ms. Kallas informed journalists.
“We have this 30 days to sort things out,” she added.
France, Britain and Germany on Thursday (August 28) set off a mechanism that might reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran in 30 days for failing to adjust to commitments over its nuclear programme it agreed to a decade in the past.
That got here after weeks of warnings over Iran’s alleged breaches of the 2015 settlement with world powers to curb its nuclear programme. The sanctions have been suspended underneath the deal.
Iran warned that it will “respond appropriately” to the step, which dangers ending essentially the most sustained diplomatic push in years for a peaceable solution to the Iranian nuclear disaster.
But the United Nations has additionally mentioned the subsequent 30 days represents a “window of opportunity” to strike a brand new deal.
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot mentioned that “Iran’s nuclear escalation must not go any further” however emphasised the transfer “does not signal the end of diplomacy”.
