Iran urges ‘honesty’ in crucial nuclear talks

IRAN: Iran on Monday urged “honesty” at crucial talks with world powers due to be held this week in order to defuse a tense international showdown over its disputed nuclear activities.

“We hope the P5+1 will come to the negotiating table with honesty, and we also will make an honest effort so that both sides reach a win-win conclusion,” Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told the Iranian parliament’s website.

Salehi warned the P5+1 group -- consisting of UN Security Council members the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China, plus Germany -- should not try to impose conditions on the talks before they begin on Saturday in Istanbul.

The aim was that “Iran gain its rights and the P5+1 have its stated concerns alleviated” over Tehran’s nuclear programme, he said.

AFP