French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead of a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland between the foreign ministers of the UK, France and Germany, and their Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, The Guardian reports.

The Geneva meeting aims to find ways to conduct diplomatic processes over Iran's nuclear program, according to the BBC.

Rubio said the US was ready for direct contact with Iran at any time, a French diplomatic source says.