Two days of talks between Iran and six world powers (United Nations Permanent members of Security Council plus Germany) ended in failure this Saturday. Iran refused to engage on any concrete proposals to build confidence that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes. Iran insists its nuclear program is only for civilian energy, but most of the rest of the world believes that the program has military purpose. Iran is under four sets of Security Council sanctions for refusing to cease enrichment and other activities that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Also, Iran has regularly kept its enrichment activities secret from the International Atomic Energy Agency. The talks in Istanbul are scheduled to continue on Saturday. They are the second round of talks between Iran and the six after negotiations resumed last month in Geneva, breaking a 14-month hiatus.
Kazuya Usui
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/world/middleeast/23nuke.html?_r=2&ref=global-home
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