Iranian and European officials will hold nuclear talks in Istanbul on Friday as tensions simmer over Tehran’s nuclear program after it was targeted by a US military strike last month.

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. The three European powers that attended the talks, known as the E3,

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 U.S. bombed Iran last month.