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IRAN

Nuclear talks with E3 nations to be resumed

Iran, Britain, France and Germany will hold nuclear talks in Istanbul on Friday, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said early on Monday, following warnings by the three European countries that failure to resume negotiations would lead to international sanctions being reimposed. The talks come after foreign ministers of the E3 nations, as those European countries are known, as well as the European Union's foreign policy chief, held their first call on Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi since Israel and the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities a month ago.