Geneva
Deadlock with Iran: The first nuclear talks in more than a year between Iran and world powers this week yielded little but an agreement to meet again next month in Istanbul. The “only outcome,” Iranian envoy Saeed Jalili said of his meeting with negotiators from the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany, was agreement on the wording of the framework for the next meeting: “Talks based on cooperation to find common ground.” The two sides gave widely differing accounts of what those talks would consist of. Jalili said that Iran’s uranium-enrichment program would “absolutely not” be up for discussion, while EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the host of this week’s talks, said January’s topic would be “our full concerns about the nuclear issue.”
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