The head of the European Union’s foreign service, Josepborrell, will travel to Iran next week to meet the country’s leaders in a bid to reduce tensions in the Middle East, the EU said in a statement on Sunday.
Tensions in the region stepped up after the killing in early January of Iranian military commander Qassemsoleimani by the United States in Iraq.
During in his trip on Monday and Tuesday, Borrell will meet Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and foreign minister Javadzarif among others.
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“Borrell received a strong mandate from the EU foreign ministers to engage in diplomatic dialogue with regional partners, to de-escalate tensions and seek opportunities for political solutions to the current crisis,” the statement said.
The EU serves as guarantor of the nuclear deal, and Borrell has a formal role in its dispute resolution process, which Britain, France and Germany activated in january afterIiran said it was no longer abiding by some limits on nuclear material.
