Why Iran, West Cannot ReachAgreement on Nuclear Talks
Iran is offering a wider framework for continued nuclear negotiations and insists that its right to nuclear enrichment be recognized, writes Mojtaba Mousavi.
Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) met in a new round of nuclear talks April 5-6 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The Iranian negotiation team led by Saeed Jalili, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, presented a new proposal which was introduced by Ali Baqeri, deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, as “the start of a new round of cooperation talks between the P5+1 and Iran.”
“These proposals have been regulated within the framework of Iran's overall plan presented in Moscow,” Baqeri told reporters in a press conference after the first plenary session in Almaty.
However, Western diplomats believe that what Iran presented during the first session is not a “clear and concrete response to the E3+3 (P5+1) Almaty-I proposal.”
