By Parisa Hafezi and John Irish

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Iran insists diplomacy is the only way to resolve a decades-long nuclear dispute with the West, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told Iranian state TV on Monday, adding it was time for the West to choose “cooperation or confrontation.”

Britain, France and Germany, known as the E3, launched a 30-day process on August 28 to reimpose U.N. sanctions, accusing Tehran of failing to abide by a 2015 deal with world powers aimed at preventing it from developing a nuclear weapon.

Araqchi said he will meet with his European counterparts and the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi in New York this week on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.

Two European diplomats told Reuters the mee

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