Europe’s most influential countries – the UK, Germany, and France – are expected to hold talks with Iran on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in Istanbul on Friday, a senior Iranian official said on Monday. “The meeting between Iran, Britain, France and Germany will take place at the deputy foreign minister level,” Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, was quoted as saying by Iranian media. The European countries, collectively known as E3, are parties to the…