World Powers Report Progress at Iran Nuclear Talks

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Source: VOA

A spokesman for six world powers holding nuclear talks with Iran in Baghdad says negotiators have made some progress but were wrapping up with no word of a breakthrough in resolving the Iranian nuclear dispute.

EU spokesman Michael Mann told VOA that the negotiations which extended into a second day on Thursday were "tough."

Speaking by phone from the Iraqi capital, Mann said the plenary sessions involving Iran and the six-nation group led by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton were set to end in the afternoon local time. Ashton held a bilateral meeting with Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili earlier in the day.


Read more: http://www.voanews.com/content/iran-rejects-world-powers-stance-in-nuclear-talks/940343.html

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1. Good news.

K & R

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2. Don't get your hopes too high.

The good part I see is they are not all blabbering in the media yet, which means they are still talking.

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3. But...but...hows Jayzus gonna come back?

Hopefully this will send the Telabangelist/Likud dreams of nuclear war down the shitter.

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4. Iran, big powers agree to another round of nuclear talks

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"Iran and world powers agreed to meet again in Moscow next month for more talks to try to end the long-running dispute over Tehran's nuclear program, but there was scant progress to resolve the main sticking points between the two sides.

At the heart of the dispute is Iran's insistence that it has the right to enrich uranium and that economic sanctions should be lifted before it stops activities that could lead to its achieving the capability to make nuclear weapons.

Western powers insist Tehran must first shut down enrichment activities before sanctions can be eased.

But both sides have powerful reasons not to abandon diplomacy. The powers want to avert the danger of a new Middle East war raised by Israeli threats to bomb Iran, while Tehran also wants to avoid a looming Western ban on its oil exports."

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/24/11864198-iran-big-powers-agree-to-another-round-of-nuclear-talks?lite