On Friday 25 July, the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and member of the Iranian nuclear negotiating team, Kazem Gharibabadi, said that his discussions with representatives of the E3 (Germany, France, the United Kingdom) and the EU in Istanbul on his country’s nuclear programme and the lifting of sanctions had been “serious, frank and thorough”.
“While strongly criticising their positions on the recent war of aggression against our people, we explained our positions of principle,...