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By Dominic Waghorn, international affairs editor

After hours of talks, the ayatollah's chief diplomat emerged giving little away. All eyes were on Abbas Araghchi. Would he give ground in the face of Israel's fierce bombardment of his country.

Yes, but only if Israel stops that bombardment which is not going to happen. Especially after a day when two of Israel's big cities suffered direct hits from Iranian missiles.

The best that can be said for almost four hours of talks, is they happened and might again. There were no breakthroughs to report, no ground shifting on either side.

The talks were flawed in concept from the beginning.

The countries meeting Araghchi here are not involved in the conflict. Israel and America were absent.

Watch: Lammy warns of 'perilous moment'

The US did send a message, via Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy. We want to talk but we're serious about getting involved with military force if you do not.

But the UK was delivering an American ultimatum and threat of force it does not itself believe to be a good idea. Britain and its European partners want de-escalation and oppose any idea of Trump and his military getting involved.

Iran is embattled, beleaguered and bombarded. But if its government is worried its calm collected foreign minister was showing none of it. 

The Iranians know Trump may send in the bombers and bunker busters within two weeks, but do they believe him?

The president for whom they coined the acronym 'Trump Always Chickens Out' has a credibility gap. And if he takes action that leads to a chain of events where Americans end up dying, he will be crucified for it by his own MAGA movement.

Rather than buckling to concessions with an Israeli gun to their head, might the ayatollahs just take their chances in the belief this president is all talk?

An update to bring you from the Israeli military now, which says around 15 fighter jets completed a series of strikes on western Iran in the past few hours.

Israel's Defence Forces said the strikes targeted missile launch sites.

The Israeli Air Force also says it intercepted more than 15 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drones launched from Iran towards Israel today.

Iran wants to lure the United States into an endless negotiating process which it uses to "protect itself from pressure", the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran has said.

Speaking to Kamali Melbourne, Jason BrodAG百家乐在线官网 said the move has been Iran's "playbook" for over 20 years now.

"They want to box US negotiators in by issuing all kinds of red lines," he said.

"They think they can dominate this process and manipulate Trump, who has made it very clear that a deadline means a deadline and he has red lines as well."

BrodAG百家乐在线官网 explained that Trump is using "coercive diplomacy" through brandishing threats and pressuring Tehran to make a choice to either preserve its regime or have a nuclear programme.

"It can't have both," he said, adding "that's the choice that the president is trying to present to the Iranians".

Watch the full interview in the video below.

An update to bring you on Iran's internet shutdown, which has now lasted for more than 48 hours.

The shutdown has left Iranians struggling to contact their loved ones and keep up to date with the state of the conflict with Israel.

Take a look at the graph below to see the moment the shutdown hit Iranians more than two days ago.

We're just hearing from Donald Trump, who is speaking to reporters after arriving in Bedminster.

He says it is "very hard" to request that Israel stops its strikes, something Iran called on the US to do.

Trump goes on to claim that Iran "doesn't want to speak to Europe" and that the country "wants to speak to us".

He adds: "Europe is not going to be able to help at this point".

Asked about whether a decision to strike Iran is the biggest he will have to make as president, Trump says: "I wouldn't really be able to tell you that now.

"I'll tell you in about a year from now... you never know about these decisions."

The US president also tells reporters that he "might" support a ceasefire between Israel and Iran "depending on the circumstances".

He goes on to say "it's a little bit hard to get somebody to stop" in the conflict.

"Israel's doing very well in terms of war, and I think you would say that Iran is doing less well," he adds.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets today to attend protests related to the conflict between Israel and Iran.

Rallies have been held across Asia, Europe and the Middle East, where many demonstrations coincided with Muslim Friday prayers.

Here are some pictures of a few of today's protests:

More to bring you from UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy now after those talks with his Iranian counterpart in Geneva.

He starts with a message urging the Iranians to get back to discussions with the United States, adding: "We will do all we can to facilitate those discussions".

Lammy says the US has made it clear there is a "short window" to find a diplomatic solution. He adds: "We're urging diplomacy, it's important they [Iran] get back into serious talks with the US".

He says that zero uranium enrichment is a "starting point" and that European foreign ministers took that message to the Iranians today.

"We have a window of time, this is perilous and deadly serious," he says.

"I think it was important for Europeans to be sat with the Iranians conveying those messages."

The European foreign ministers also released a joint statement after the talks, in which they called on all sides to refrain from taking steps which could lead to further escalation.

They reiterated longstanding concerns about Iran's expansion of its nuclear programme and expressed willingness to meet again in the future.

Talks between European foreign ministers and their Iranian counterpart were scheduled to last two hours, but went on for almost four hours.

Our international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn explains how things unfolded in Geneva in the video below.

The stakes are very high as European foreign ministers leave talks with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva, a former UK ambassador to the US has said.

Speaking to Sky presenter Jonathan Samuels, Sir Peter Westmacott said the talks are so important "because they have got to discuss with the Iranians whether they want to make an offer on the whole issue of enrichment and the dismantling of the Iranian nuclear programme".

But over in the US, Westmacott explained that Republican opinion on Iran is divided.

"You've got the MAGA base who like to remind the president that he was elected on a platform of ending wars and not starting wars," he said.

"But you've also got... the more traditional Republican Party who think here is an opportunity to not only kill off the enrichment, the nuclear programme, but deliver regime change."

Watch the full interview in the video below.

Some more reaction to bring you now from those talks in Geneva, this time from Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi.

He describes the talks with his British, German, French and EU counterparts as a serious and respectful discussion.

Araghchi says Iran is ready to consider diplomacy once again and supports the continuation of talks.

Iran is prepared to meet with representatives of the three countries and the EU again in the near future, he adds.