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.

Iran’s foreign minister will meet in Geneva on Friday with counterparts from Germany, France and the United Kingdom

When President Trump said this week that Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon” but was perhaps “a few weeks away from having one,” he was in effect introducing a familiar feature to the public debate over America’s involvement in the Israel-Iran war: an element of urgency unsupported by any publicly available facts.