Iran, European Powers Meet in Bid to Avoid Nuclear Crisis

Top diplomats from Europe and Iran met in New York to try to avert a fresh crisis over Tehran’s nuclear program, as the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader rejected prospects of new talks with the US.

Foreign ministers from France, Germany, the UK and the European Union’s top envoy held talks with their counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, according to Iran’s foreign ministry.