Iran
nuclear talks set for next week in Vienna: Iran foreign ministry
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[October 08, 2014]
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran and major
powers are set to hold multilateral and bilateral nuclear talks in the
coming days in Vienna, Iran's foreign ministry said on Wednesday, less
than two months ahead of a deadline for a deal to end their dispute.
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A diplomatic source in the Austrian capital, where Iran and the
six world powers have held a series of meetings since early this
year, said the next round was expected to take place on Oct. 14-15
but that it would not include all the seven states.
Senior Iranian officials have said that Iran was likely to hold
bilateral talks with the United States in Vienna and then hold a
full session with the six powers in November, with a Nov. 24 target
date for a comprehensive agreement.
The discussions, between Iran and the five permanent members of the
U.N. Security Council plus Germany, are aimed at settling a more
than decade long stand-off over Iranian nuclear work which Tehran
says is peaceful but the West suspects may have military aims.
"I think that we will have bilateral and multilateral talks before
the end of the next week in Vienna," ministry spokeswoman Marzieh
Afkham said when asked when Iran and its negotiating partners, a
grouping known as the P5+1, would next meet.
![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2014/Oct/08/images/ads/current/iga_sda032409.png) Afkham, speaking at a news conference carried live on state
television, did not say how long the talks would last but said
without elaborating that there had been slow progress so far.
Iran rejects Western allegations that it is seeking nuclear weapons
capability. It says its nuclear program is solely for peaceful
purposes.
The two sides missed a self-imposed July 20 deadline for a
comprehensive nuclear deal, making the new deadline Nov. 24.
There was no immediate comment from the office of European Union
foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who coordinates talks with
Iran on behalf of the six world powers.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that there was "consensus
between Iran and P5+1 on fundamental issues and differences are over
fine details", the official IRNA news agency reported late on
Tuesday.
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"There’s no dispute over whether reactors should be built in Arak or
if Iran should enjoy enrichment technology or about Fordow or the
end of so-called (nuclear) military activities. Differences are
mainly over details and quantities," he said.
Iran has refused to close down an underground uranium enrichment
plant at Fordow and a planned heavy-water reactor at Arak with the
potential to yield plutonium.
Separately, a U.N. nuclear agency team is holding talks in Tehran
this week, Iranian media say, in an apparent effort to advance a
long-running investigation into suspected atomic bomb research by
the country. Iran denies the allegations but has promised to work
with the IAEA to help clear up the suspicions.
(Reporting by Michelle Moghtader, Mehrdad Balali, Fredrik Dahl in
Vienna and Parisa Hafezi in Ankara, Editing by William Maclean and
Dominic Evans)
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