June 20 (UPI) -- The European Union and Britain met for crisis talks with Iran on Friday to try to determine a way out of the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel over Tehran's nuclear development program.
The foreign ministers of Germany, France, Britain and the EU's foreign policy chief sat down with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva with the clock ticking, after President Donald Trump set a 14-day deadline Thursday to him to decide on direct U.S. involvement.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the negotiations with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi were "aimed at obtaining from Iran a lasting rollback of its nuclear and ballistic missiles programs."
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who flew in overnight from consultations in Washington on Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, said that despite the perilousness of the situation, "we are determined Iran should never have a nuclear weapon."
However, he called for all sides to seize the window of opportunity that had opened up.
