Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi warned in a phone call with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas against what he called the "destructive approach" of several European countries, he said in a statement on Telegram on Tuesday.

Araqchi also criticised the stance of some European countries over the recent air war between Israel and Iran, saying it was supportive of Israel and the United States. He did not specify which countries he had in mind.

Kallas said after the call that "negotiations on ending Iran's nuclear programme should restart as soon as possible".

In a post on social media platform X, the EU's top diplomat said cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency "must resume" and that the bloc is ready to facilitate.

"Any threats to pull out of the non-proliferation treaty don’t help to lower tensions," she added.

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EU’s top diplomat urges Iran to resume nuclear talks

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urged Iran to resume talks on ending the country’s nuclear program while speaking with Tehran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

“Negotiations on ending Iran’s nuclear programme should restart as soon as possible. Cooperation with @iaeaorg must resume. The EU is ready to facilitate this. Any threats to pull out of the non-proliferation treaty don’t help to lower tensions,” Kallas said in a Tuesday post on X.

Araghchi and Kallas spoke over the phone Tuesday. Iran’s foreign minister criticized the approach “some” European countries and International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi took during the recent clash between Israel and Iran. Araghchi did not name the countries.

Araghchi told Kallas that the approach of those countries is complicating current conditions and making the path to striking a diplomatic solution more challenging.

The United States military hit Iran’s three vital nuclear facilities last month as Israel and Iran traded military strikes, an escalation that halted Washington’s two-month nuclear negotiations with Tehran that were headed by Araghchi and President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.

Trump and his allies have touted the U.S. strikes on June 21 as a successful operation that set back Iran’s nuclear program by years and have slammed the leaked intelligence report that stated the airstrikes delayed Tehran’s nuclear program by a few months.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said in an interview Monday that Tehran is open to holding nuclear talks with Washington if the U.S. agrees not to fire more strikes.

“We are hearing from Washington, telling us that they want to talk. Right now, we are seeking an answer to this question: Are we going to see a repetition of an act of aggression while we are engaging in dialog? They have not made their position clear yet,” Takht-Ravanchi said in an interview with the BBC.

Takht-Ravanchi added that Iran has to have the ability to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.

Next week, Trump is expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, where the two leaders will talk about trade, the developments regarding Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip and the aftermath of Jerusalem’s and Washington’s strikes on Iran.

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Iran ‘needs more time’ to decide on resuming nuclear talks with US

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addresses a special session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi has ruled out a quick resumption of talks with the United States after President Donald Trump said US negotiations with Tehran could restart as early as this week.

Araghchi’s comments on CBS Evening News on Monday came as the foreign ministers of the G7 issued a statement calling for dialogue on a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme.

Iran and the US were holding talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme when Israel launched attacks on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure. The US later joined in Israel’s attacks, by bombing the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan sites on June 21.

Tehran insists its programme is peaceful, but the US and Israel say they want to ensure Iran cannot build a nuclear weapon.

Araghchi said negotiations would not start as quickly as Trump had indicated, and that Iran first needs assurances against further attacks.

“In order for us to decide to reengage, we would have to first ensure that America will not revert back to targeting us in a military attack during the negotiations,” the minister said.

“I think with all these considerations, we still need more time,” he said, although “the doors of diplomacy will never slam shut”.

The Trump administration is seeking talks with Iran after the US president, during his first term, abandoned an agreement his predecessor signed with Tehran in 2015, which curbed the nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief. Under that deal, Iran was allowed to enrich uranium below 3.67 percent purity for fuel used in commercial nuclear power plants.

After Trump ditched the deal, Iran responded by producing uranium enriched to 60 percent, above levels for civilian usage but still below weapons grade.

Trump has said the US attacks had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear sites, and senior officials said it would be almost impossible for the country to resurrect its atomic programme.

Araghchi pushed back against that assertion, however.

“One cannot obliterate the technology and science for enrichment through bombings,” he told CBS. “If there is this will on our part, and the will exists in order to once again make progress in this industry, we will be able to expeditiously repair the damages and make up for the lost time.”

Since the US and Israeli attacks, and the ensuing ceasefire, Iran has put on hold its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) due to what Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday called the the agency chief’s “destructive” behaviour towards the country.

Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Tehran, said tensions are growing between Iran and the IAEA.

“They [Iranians] are saying that they will only allow the inspectors to return once they secure the nuclear sites” that have been bombed by the US and Israel, Serdar said.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations, meanwhile, said they supported the ceasefire between Iran and Israel, and urged for negotiations between Tehran and Washington to resume.

“We call for the resumption of negotiations, resulting in a comprehensive, verifiable and durable agreement that addresses Iran’s nuclear program,” the G7 foreign ministers said on Monday.

The ministers also urged “all parties to avoid actions that could further destabilise the region”.