German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has welcomed talks in Geneva between the United States and Iran set for Thursday.
“Every diplomatic attempt undertaken to avoid military escalation is right and necessary, and has the support of the German government,” Wadephul said after meeting his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prévot in Berlin.
The aim was to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon to halt its ballistic missile programme and to set limits to its policies destabilizing the region, he said.
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“If Tehran analyses the situation calmly, it should realize that it should move towards the US in these three areas,” he said.
Wadephul said he greatly hoped that the talks in Geneva would be “crowned with success.”
Prévot said Iran had to be prevented from continuing to play a destabilizing role in the region with serious effects for all living there.
He welcomed the decision by the European Union to characterize Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization on account of its repression of protests against the government in Tehran.