Iranian VP expects new round of talks with six world powers

Iran on Thursday shrugged off a demand from six world powers to show flexibility on suspending uranium enrichment or face further U.N sanctions, and said it expected to be able to meet in the middle with its interlocutors. It also said it would no longer cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency in its probe of allegations that Iran had tried to make nuclear arms. Iranian Vice President Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, who also is head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, spoke after meeting with IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei and five days after Iran and the six powers ended Geneva talks still deadlocked on international demands that Tehran give up uranium enrichment. The United States and other Western nations accuse Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and demand that it freeze its uranium enrichment program. Iran... [read full story]