Iran will hold talks Friday in Istanbul, Turkey, regarding its nuclear program with European nations as it faces the threat

If the snapback is triggered, Iran will not show more restraint in this regard,' Iran's lead nuclear negotiator told reporters.

I think the recent attack proved that there is no military option for our nuclear program,” Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said

The talks, to be held in Istanbul on Friday, will be the first since a ceasefire was reached after a 12-day war waged by Israel against Iran in June, which also saw the United States strike nuclear-related facilities in the Islamic Republic. A similar meeting had been held in the Turkish city in May.

Iran, Britain, France and Germany will hold nuclear talks in Istanbul on Friday, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said early on Monday, following warnings by the three European countries that failure to resume negotiations would lead to international sanctions being reimposed on Iran.

Germany, France and the United Kingdom are coordinating plans to hold nuclear talks with Iran in the coming week, a German diplomatic source told Newsweek.

For weeks, fires and explosions have been reported almost daily in Iran. Officials are investigating what they think is a coordinated campaign.

But the quake, which appeared to leave the fortified plant intact, has renewed agonizing questions about the intersection of natural disasters, military tactics, and the remarkable engineering that characterizes Iran’s subterranean nuclear facilities.

France, Britain and Germany told Iran on Thursday that they would restore U.N. sanctions unless it reopened talks on its nuclear programme immediately and produced concrete results by the end of August.