Tehran is negotiating with E3 countries such as France, Germany, and the United Kingdom on Iran’s nuclear program and other issues.

Tehran, Iran – Iran released a dual German national as its diplomats held more talks with their European counterparts on sanctions and how to deal with tensions.

The daughter of Iranian-German human rights activist Nahid Taghavi, who has been released from an Iranian prison and returned to Germany, posted a photo of herself and her mother on X on Monday. photo.

Iran’s judiciary and foreign ministry had no immediate comment on her release.

The 70-year-old was arrested in the Iranian capital Tehran in October 2020, found guilty of forming a group “for the purpose of disrupting national security” and “spreading propaganda against the establishment” and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Amnesty International described Tagavi as a “prisoner of conscience” whose detention was “arbitrary” and said she was held in solitary confinement for long periods of time despite her failing health and repeated brief sick leave.

“It is a moment of great joy that Nasheed Tagawi can finally embrace her family again,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said in response to the news on Monday.

Her release comes amid a week of developments involving prisoners in Iran and the West.

A day after Iran reported the incident, both Switzerland and France summoned Iranian envoys to protest the jailing of their nationals. Swiss citizen commits suicide in a prison in Semnan, about 180 kilometers (112 miles) east of Tehran.

italian journalist Cecilia Sala released from Iran Last week, after three weeks of detention in Tehran’s Evin prison. Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni personally visited US President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida to negotiate a solution.

The 29-year-old author and podcaster was arrested for “violating the laws of the Islamic Republic” after entering Iran on a regular journalist visa.

Her arrest comes three days after Italy detained Iranian national Mohammad Abedini at the request of the United States, which accuses him and another Iranian national of transferring drone technology to Iran.

Washington claims the technology was linked to drone attacks on U.S. military bases in Jordan last year Killed three American soldiers.

Officials confirmed Abedini arrived in Tehran on Sunday but insisted his case was not directly related to the arrest or release of the Italian journalist.

In mid-December, Iran sentenced Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh to prison. 10 years in prison For “cooperating with a hostile United States government.”

Geneva talks

Meanwhile, Iran and Europe’s top three powers Germany, France and Britain began more diplomatic talks on Monday afternoon in Geneva, Switzerland.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei told reporters earlier in the day that Tehran’s main focus is lifting sanctions.

He said the meetings could not be described as “negotiations” but a continuation of the “consultations” held in December. Baghai added that a “wide range” of topics will be discussed in Geneva, including nuclear issues.

The first Trump administration imposed sweeping sanctions on Iran’s economy after unilaterally withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, in 2018.

The EU has also imposed waves of sanctions on Iran during the war in Ukraine, with the West accusing Iran of arming Russia. Tehran denies that it is an arms supplier to the war, saying it only sent some drones in the months before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Iran’s bilateral relations with Germany have also been deteriorating, with Taghavi’s release coming months after the death of another imprisoned German-Iranian dual national sparked a diplomatic spat between Berlin and Tehran.

At the end of October, Belbok ordered the order after Iranian state media reported that Jamshid Sharmahd, a German-Iranian prisoner sentenced to death in 2023 on “terrorism”-related charges, died shortly before execution. Close all three Iranian consulates in Germany. .