European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in a 1 July phone call that negotiations aimed at ending Iran’s nuclear programme must restart "without delay" and that Tehran should resume full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Kallas added that the EU is ready to facilitate renewed talks, signalling Brussels’ willingness to revive diplomacy after recent setbacks to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Araghchi pushed back the next day, arguing that framing any dialogue around "ending" Iran’s nuclear activities contradicts the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which recognises member states’ right to develop peaceful nuclear technology. He said Iran would not accept conditions that undermine those rights and described Kallas’s wording as a misreading of the NPT and the Additional Protocol governing inspections and enrichment. The confrontation broadened on 13 July when Araghchi used social-media posts to accuse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to dictate Washington’s position in the stalled talks and of seeking to erase "40 years of Iran’s peaceful nuclear achievements." The escalating rhetoric underlines the political headwinds facing any renewed negotiations even as the EU presses for a swift return to the table.