Iran-world powers nuclear talks successful despite Israel's plots

Senior member of the Iranian nuclear negotiating team in the talks with the six major world powers underlined the ineffectiveness of the plots hatched by the Zionist regime of Israel to persuade the western powers to leave the talks and resort to military option against Tehran. Seyed Abbas Araqchi, who is also an Iranian deputy foreign minister, was quoted by Rapporteur for the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini as saying that the Zionist regime is making every effort to derail the negotiations and persuade the United States and the West to pursue military option in dealing with Iran’s nuclear issue. He reiterated that the US and Israel failed to force Iran to give up its right to uranium enrichment and Iran’s right has been recognized. On Thursday, Iran and the Sextet of world powers agreed on an agenda for negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program and will meet again next month in Vienna, a senior Iranian official said after two days of talks in the Austrian capital. This indicates an early step forward in the elusive search for a settlement of the decade-old dispute, even though the sides remain far apart on how to resolve it and both Iran and the United States have publicly stated it may not be possible to reach a final agreement. Negotiators from Iran and the world powers met in Vienna on February 18-20 to hammer out an agenda for talks on a final deal to the standoff over Tehran's nuclear activities. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi said, "The involved parties have agreed on an agenda and a framework and the next round of talks will be in the second half of March in Vienna." Zarif, who headed the Iranian delegation, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who presided over the delegations of the six world powers, ended their last round of talks on Thursday. The negotiations will probably extend at least over several months, and could help defuse years of hostility between energy-exporting Iran and the West, ease the danger of a new war in the Middle-East, transform the regional power balance and open up major business opportunities for western firms.