France, Britain and Germany said they doubted Iran wanted to revive the 2015 nuclear deal as Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid was set to depart for Germany on Sunday in hopes of swaying Berlin to abandon the agreement altogether.

“Iran continues to escalate its nuclear program way beyond any plausible civilian justification,” the E3 said in a joint statement.

Their statement came after hope had been raised that the European Union, which has held indirect talks between the United States and Tehran for the last year-and-a-half, was on the edge of reviving the deal.

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One of the main sticking points has been Iran’s insistence that the International Atomic Energy Agency must close its probe into traces of uranium found in undeclared nuclear sites.

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