Europe is activated to seek an exit and avoid the intervention of the United States in the conflict. The foreign ministers of Germany, France and the United Kingdom, and the head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, met on Friday in Geneva with their Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi. The meeting has been held a day after the US President was “two weeks” to decide whether or not to attack the Tehran regime.
At the exit of the meeting, European representatives expressed their will to. The objective is to promote a dialogue resolution taking advantage of Trump’s hesitations between the diplomacy option to prevent Iran from being done with the atomic bomb, or the military to propitiate even a regime change.
“We expect from Iran an opening to the discussion, even with the United States to achieve a really negotiated solution,” said Frenchman Jean-Noël Barrot at the exit of the meeting. In a brief statement to the press, their German and British counterparts, Johann Wadephul and David Lammy, insisted on the same message.
In a joint statement, the three European powers and the EU representative declared themselves arranged “to continue discussing all relevant issues for the Iran nuclear program and broader issues.” The Europeans celebrated “the current US efforts to seek a negotiated solution” and expressed “the will to meet again in the future.”
The French president, explained on the outskirts of Paris that the Europeans had led to Geneva “a full, diplomatic and technical negotiation offer.” The offer, according to Macron, started from two principles. The first is that “no one can ignore the risk that an Iran endowed with the nuclear weapon” and the awareness that “in this matter no laxism is admissible.” The second principle is that “no one can seriously think that this threat is answered with operations [israelíes] currently. “Macron advocates a” background negotiation “that also addresses” financing [iraní] of all terrorist groups that destabilize the region. ”
Reduced expectations
The expectations at the meeting, however, were reduced. Europe, involved for years in efforts to stop the, has tried to exert its influence on this conflict, without success so far. The EU influence capacity, both in the nuclear contentious and in Israel’s policies in the region, has been shown scarce.
Before the signs that Trump would be willing to talk to the Iranians, Minister Araghchi declared his country’s television: “We will not negotiate with anyone about our missile program. No rational mind would accept to enter conversations about their own defense capabilities.”
“It is good that there are conversations, and we have always stressed that we are willing to talk,” said a German government spokesman in a press conference. But Berlin sends contradictory signals.
In the in Canada, at the beginning of the week, the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz applauded the Israeli attack to the Iranian nuclear facilities. “What Israel does is dirty work for all of us,” he told the ZDF chain. “This Mulás regime has brought death and destruction to the world,” he added before remembering 2023 against Israel, “that would not have been possible,” he said, “without Tehran.” “The only thing I can say is: ‘respect for what the Israeli army and Israeli leadership have had the value of doing.”
In the same city where the meeting between the Europeans and the representative of Iran, the negotiations that among the same European powers – the so -called E3 -, Russia, USA, will go to stop the Iranian nuclear program, must be held this Friday. Trump, after arriving at the White House in 2017, withdrew from that agreement, signed during the administration of Barack Obama.
On Monday, in a conversation with their Iranian counterpart, the three European ministers and Kallas have already urged to return to the negotiations to respond to the concerns that the nuclear program arouses, according to a statement. They also asked everywhere to “show moderation, refrain from any measure that leads to a new escalation in the region and resume the path of diplomacy.”
