Iran's foreign minister said on Monday that it was time to end the country's long standoff with world powers over its disputed nuclear program.
Iran's foreign minister said on Monday that it was time to end the
country's long standoff with world powers over its disputed nuclear program.
"The parties have reached a conclusion that they must exit the current
deadlock," Ali Akbar Salehi told the ISNA news agency.
The six major powers engaging
Iran
over
its nuclear work said in late November they wanted to soon hold a new round of
talks with
Tehran
.
Iran
is
yet to make any official comment on the request.
Their last round of talks in June yielded no breakthrough in
Moscow
, as
Iran
rejected a proposal by world powers to suspend part of its program and asked
for a more substantial sanctions relief in return.
Salehi said he had "no information" when the next round would take
place, but expressed hope that negotiations would continue.
His comments came days after
Iran
and
the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency wrapped up talks in
Tehran
over
a "structured approach" for the Islamic republic to address
allegations of weaponisation.
In an interview with Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam satellite network, top
lawmaker Aladin Boroujerdi hinted that the next round of talks with the
so-called P5+1--the United States, Russia, China, France, Germany and
Britain--would be held after negotiations with the IAEA on January 16.
"Based on the IAEA meeting, we will talk with the West and discuss details
for negotiations with the P5+1," said Boroujerdi, who heads parliament's
foreign policy commission, the
Fars
news
agency reported.
Decisions on
Iran
's
nuclear program rest with
Iran
's
supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose representative Saeed Jalili at
Iran
's
Supreme National Security Council handles talks with world powers.
Jalili's office has not made any comments on the P5+1's latest offer of talks.
Western powers accuse
Iran
of
seeking to acquire a weapons capability under the guise of its nuclear energy
program.
Iran
denies the charge, saying its work is for peaceful purposes only.
U.S.
envoy
to IAEA Robert Wood warned on November 29 that
Washington
would
push for the agency's board to refer
Iran
to
the U.N. Security Council if
Tehran
displays no "substantive cooperation" with the agency by March.
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