The European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell visited Tehran on Monday for talks with senior officials in the Islamic Republic, Iranian foreign ministry said, APA's Tehran bureau reports.
Borell is scheduled to meet Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as well as Parliamentary speaker Ali Larjani during the two-day trip, amid heightening tension over the country's rising nuclear program.
In late January, the EU foreign policy chief announced an extension in the time allocated to negotiate means to save Iran's failing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, under a dispute mechanism triggered by three EU states, France, Germany and Britian respectively.
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