Britain, France meet at Brussels

BRUSSELS/PARIS, January 7

The British, French and German foreign ministers meet in Brussels on Tuesday to hold urgent talks over Iran as they prepare their reaction after Tehran’s decision to scrap the nuclear enrichment limits under a 2015 accord.

The ministers had already been scheduled to meet with their Italian counterparts to discuss the crisis in Libya, but opted to hold separate discussions on Iran amid the crisis that erupted following the US killing of an Iranian general.

Iran said on Sunday it would scrap limits on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from the 2015 agreement with six major powers, which Washington abandoned in 2018, but the European countries were trying to salvage.

Britain’s foreign office said the E3 — Britain, France and Germany — would meet to discuss ways to defuse tensions between the United States and Iran. — Reuters