LONDON (Reuters) -British foreign minister David Lammy will head to Geneva on Friday for nuclear talks with Iran and European counterparts, racing to press for a diplomatic solution over Tehran’s nuclear programme,

The Foreign Secretary is meeting Abbas Araghchi on Friday alongside counterparts from France, Germany and the EU, as the US backs away from conflict.

A meeting between Iran’s foreign minister and senior European diplomats has yielded hopes of further talks but no indication of any immediate concrete breakthrough, a week after the crisis centered on the Iranian nuclear program erupted into war between Israel and Tehran.