Iranian diplomats have met their counterparts from the UK, Germany, and France for nuclear talks, for the first time since Israel launched attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities in June. The strikes triggered a 12-day war, which also saw the US bomb a number of Iran's nuclear sites, bringing US-Iran nuclear talks to an abrupt end.

Last week, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, asserting that the European troika had forfeited their role as participants in the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the JCPOA.

"Our uranium enrichment will continue; we will not give up this right of the Iranian people," Araqchi said in a video carried by state media, adding that Friday's talks are "a con