Iran says new nuke talk session in few weeks

Reflecting signs of progress at ongoing Iran nuclear talks, the country's foreign minister said today that his country would meet again with six powers within weeks to further discuss ways to ease fears his Iran may want atomic arms.
Mohammad Javad Zarif's posted his comments to Facebook as the US and its negotiating partners were sitting with Iran for a closer look at what Tehran is describing as a possible breakthrough deal that could lessen suspicions about its nuclear goals and lead to the easing of sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Iran says it is not interested in getting the bomb. Its proposal yesterday to the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany focused on their demands that uranium enrichment and other activities that could be used to make nuclear arms be stopped or reduced.

No details were made public. But comments from Western officials meeting with Iranian negotiators indicated interest in the proposal, described by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi as designed to allow Iran to leave the "dark" path of international isolation.
Previous rounds have often been fitful and sporadic, reflecting the deadlock between the two sides. Zarif's Facebook comments that negotiations will resume "in a few weeks" strengthened expectations that some progress was being made. He said the follow-up will also be held in Geneva, the venue for the ongoing talks.
Zarif said the six powers welcomed Iran's "new approach," and urged reciprocity, calling on the powers to also show a "new attitude."

Iran's version of success is for painful international sanctions to be lifted in exchange for possible concessions it had been previously unwilling to consider, such as increased monitoring and scaling back of uranium enrichment; a potential path to nuclear arms and the centerpiece of the impasse with the West.