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Diplomats Press Iran to Stop Stalling on Nuclear Talks


(Al-Monitor) Laura Rozen - After weeks of Iranian foot-dragging, Western negotiators are pressing Iran to give a firm response to multiple efforts to arrange a new meeting. "We have been very surprised to see Iran come back to us again and again with new pre-conditions on the modalities of the talks, for example by changing the venue and delaying their responses," a spokesperson for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday. Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, noted: "When interested parties can't agree on a date or location for a negotiation, it doesn't portend well for the negotiation itself."
2013-01-24 00:00:00
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