TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi is scheduled to discuss the country's nuclear issue in a phone call with his French, British and German counterparts on Friday, the official news agency IRNA reported.

The European Union foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, will also take part in the discussion, IRNA quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei as saying.

Other issues on the agenda include Iran's demand for the removal of sanctions and the accountability of the European parties for the Israeli-U.S. attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities in June, Baghaei said.

Since last September, Iran and the three European countries of France, Britain and Germany have held several rounds of talks on a range of issues, including Tehran's nuclear program and the removal of sanctions. The latest round took place in Istanbul, Türkiye, in late July.

Over the past months, the Europeans have threatened to reinstate international sanctions on Iran by triggering the snapback mechanism, a clause in a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers that would allow the other parties to re-impose all international sanctions should Iran fail to comply with the agreement. ■