Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the meeting of the deputy foreign ministers of Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom would take place on Friday, without specifying a venue.

"A range of regional and international issues and topics, including the issues of Palestine and Lebanon, as well as the nuclear issue, will be discussed," the spokesman said in a foreign ministry statement.

Baghaei described the upcoming meeting as a continuation of talks held with the countries in September on the sidelines of the annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The United States and the three Western powers had earlier brought a censure motion targeting the Islamic republic at the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The resolution was adopted on Thursday.

In their four-way statement Saturday, the United States, Britain, France and Germany welcomed the adoption of the IAEA resolution, saying it was in response to Iran's "continued failure" to cooperate with the watchdog in a timely manner.

The resolution, seen by AFP, says it is "essential and urgent" for Iran to "act to fulfill its legal obligations" under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ratified in 1970.

The text also calls on Tehran to provide "technically credible explanations" for the presence of uranium particles found at two undeclared locations in Iran.

In addition, Western powers are asking for a "comprehensive report" to be issued by the IAEA on Iran's nuclear efforts "at the latest" by spring 2025.

The move came as tensions ran high over Iran's atomic program, which critics fear is aimed at developing a nuclear weapon -- something Tehran has repeatedly denied.

It also came after IAEA head Rafael Grossi returned from a trip to Tehran, where he appeared to have made headway.

During the visit, Iran agreed to an IAEA demand to cap its sensitive stock of near weapons-grade uranium enriched up to 60 percent purity.

In response to the resolution, Iran announced it was launching a "series of new and advanced centrifuges".

Centrifuges enrich uranium transformed into gas by rotating it at very high speed, increasing the proportion of fissile isotope material (U-235).

"We will substantially increase the enrichment capacity with the utilisation of different types of advanced machines," Behrouz Kamalvandi, Iran's atomic energy organisation spokesman, told state TV.

The country, however, also said it planned to continue its "technical and safeguards cooperation with the IAEA".

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Monday during a meeting with Grossi that Tehran was willing to resolve "doubts and ambiguities" over its nuclear programme.

Tehran had before expressed hopes that the parties would "allow the issues between Iran and the agency to continue in a technical way and away from political pressures and considerations."

*This story was edited by Ahram Online.