– Norway recently hosted an informal meeting between France, Germany, Great Britain and Iran, confirms the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (MFA) press officer Mathias Rongved to news. Iranian and European diplomats are said to have met last week for talks in Oslo. The news was first reported by the website Amwaj.media. According to the website, the goal was to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, which was scrapped during Donald Trump’s presidency. Rongved from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that the aim was to prevent escalation. – The aim of the meeting was to discuss serious concerns and prevent escalation in a tense situation, he says. UD does not elaborate on which concerns or escalation they are referring to. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will not answer questions about the content of the talks or whether the meeting was a topic when Anniken Huitfeldt met the Iranian foreign minister a few weeks ago. Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also confirms the meeting, but also denies that there were negotiations about the nuclear agreement. According to Amwaj, Iran’s nuclear negotiator Ali Baqeri-Kani met diplomats from the E3 countries Germany, France and Great Britain. No Norwegian politicians were present, writes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an email to news. Received criticism for meeting with Iran Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt has received criticism in recent weeks for a meeting with the Iranian foreign minister at the UN. In March, Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt met Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. This meeting caused a great stir. – The dialogue has not led to anything. People are raped and killed. Anniken Huitfeldt must stop fooling around with the mullahs, said Norwegian-Iranian Michelle Majedi to news. In the Storting, Anniken Huitfeldt said that it was her “damned duty” to talk to the regime.
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