Hours after a group of European foreign ministers met their Iranian counterpart for talks in Geneva on Friday, US President Donald Trump appeared to dismiss their push for negotiations.
“Iran doesn’t want to speak to Europe, they want to speak to us,” the US president told reporters as he arrived in Morristown, New Jersey.
“Europe is not going to be able to help in this one.”
The British, French and German foreign ministers, as well as the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said in a joint statement on Friday that they “shared their support for discussions to continue and welcomed ongoing US efforts to seek a negotiated solution.”
“This is a perilous moment, and it is hugely important that we don’t see regional escalation of this conflict,” the UK’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy said after the meeting.
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said after the meeting that Iran was open to talks on its nuclear programme once Israeli attacks on Iran had stopped.
Trump has given a two-week timeline to decide whether the US will join Israel in striking Iran’s nuclear sites.
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