Iran said it would continue nuclear talks with European powers after "serious, frank, and detailed" conversations on Friday, the first such face-to-face meeting since Israel and the US bombed Iran last month.

Iranian and European diplomats have met in Istanbul in the latest drive to unpick the deadlock over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Iranian diplomats have met their counterparts from the UK, Germany, and France for nuclear talks, for the first time since Israel launched attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities in June. The strikes triggered a 12-day war, which also saw the US bomb a number of Iran's nuclear sites, bringing US-Iran nuclear talks to an abrupt end.