Just before the initiation of talks between Iran and six world powers on Iran's controversial nuclear programme in Istanbul,Iran declared that they would not discuss suspension of their country's uranium enrichment program. According to a statement issued by Iran's Supreme National Security Council on Friday, the talks will continue on Saturday.
As talks on Tehran's nuclear program edged close to
a possible collapse after Iran's statement that it won't consider giving up its basic rights.As Iran has repeatedly said that its program is for peaceful nuclear energy which is required for its population.Iran said differences were narrowing at talks with six world powers who hope Tehran will curb its ability to turn nuclear power into atomic arms,but other nations said progress remained elusive.
Iran's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, opened an initial plenary session by demanding an end to sanctions as a precondition to any nuclear agreement. .The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, who heads the Iranian delegation, also had separate meetings with Ashton and the Russian and Chinese delegations on the sidelines of the talks.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a speech on Wednesday in Tehran, told that Iran "will not retreat an inch," adding that "the nuclear issue is over from the Iranian point of view."
While the two-days of talks focused at freezing Iran's uranium enrichment programme,Instead, Iranian officials are pushing an agenda that covers just about everything except its nuclear programme: global disarmament, Israel's suspected nuclear arsenal, and Tehran's concerns about US military bases in Iraq and elsewhere.
The six powers -- China, Britain, France, Russia, the United States, and Germany -- want to nudge Iran toward acknowledging the need to reduce worries that it might shift its uranium enrichment programme into making weapons.
UN security council has already imposed four rounds of sanctions on Iran .In addition to that the United States and European Union have added their own sanctions.
"Compared to the Geneva talks, the negotiations in Istanbul are being held in a more positive way," Iranian delegate Abolfazl Zohrevand said, referring to talks in the Swiss city that ended last month with only an agreement to meet again in Turkey.
"There are good signs that the two sides will make progress."
He told that compromise by Iran's negotiating partners was moving the talks forward. "They didn't get what they had hoped to get from pressure and sanctions," he said. "They are showing some flexibility. This is helping both sides to be optimistic."
But US officials in Washington were unimpressed with Iran's presentation and held out little hope for progress in
convincing Iran to comply with international demands in two days of talks.
A major accomplishment, the officials said, would be an agreement for another round of talks. They spoke on condition of anonymity due to the delicacy of the diplomacy and because the meeting was not over.
But concerns have grown, because its uranium enrichment programme could also make fissile warhead material,because of its nuclear secrecy and also because the Islamic nation refuses to cooperate with attempts to investigate
suspicions that it ran experiments related to making nuclear weapons.
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