SpaceWar.com reports: “Iran is set to hold talks with Britain, France and Germany in Turkey on Friday, after US President Donald Trump said a nuclear deal with Tehran was ‘getting close’.

The Istanbul meeting follows Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s warning of ‘irreversible’ consequences if the European powers move to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran that were lifted under a 2015 deal.

The so-called E3 were parties to that agreement along with China, Russia and the United States.

But Trump effectively torpedoed the deal during his first term in 2018, by unilaterally abandoning it and reimposing sanctions on Iran’s banking sector and oil exports.

A year later, Iran responded by rolling back its own commitments under the deal, which provided relief from sanctions in return for UN-monitored restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities.

The three European powers have been weighing whether to trigger the 2015 deal’s ‘snapback’ mechanism, which would reinstate UN sanctions in response to Iranian non-compliance — an option that expires in October…”