Iran:Iran-US Fresh N-Talks, Salehi Optimistic

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Iranian and US diplomacy chiefs had kicked off a fresh round of talks in the Swiss city of Lausanne as part of broader negotiations between Iran and six world powers aimed at clinching a final deal over Tehran's nuclear program.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry resumed negotiations, hoping to continue accelerating progress toward a deal on Iran's nuclear program.

Zarif and his negotiating team had continued their intense marathon talks with the American side in Lausanne the previous week when the top Iranian diplomat also took some time to meet one-on-one in the Belgian capital of Brussels with the European foreign ministers of the P5+1 group - Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany, Philip Hammond of Britain and France's Laurent Fabius.

Zarif also sat down with EU foreign policy Chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels.

Nevertheless, the days-long negotiations last week were suspended on March 20 as members of the P5+1 group - the US, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany - needed a short hiatus in the talks for further coordination among themselves.

Meanwhile, senior Iranian negotiator Abbas Araqchi also confirmed the suspension of the talks, saying the P5+1 group were to have "more consultation and coordination."
Moreover, Zarif and Kerry both announced that the negotiating teams had made headway in the talks.

Zarif said, "We made good progress over this week," comments echoed by his US opposite number John Kerry by saying, "We made a lot of progress."

Tehran and the six world powers had been in talks to resolve outstanding issues surrounding Iran's peaceful atomic w
ork to pave the way for striking an overarching deal on the country's nuclear program.
In a related notion, Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi declared that he was "optimistic" about reaching a potentially historic nuclear deal with world powers despite external interference from those opposed to a deal.

"On the whole I am optimistic... but internationally those who have an interest in more troubles and not dealing with this question have not been inactive. They are trying to make sure there is no deal," Ali Akbar Salehi said.

He added, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has demonstrated its political will and it is up to the other side to take a step forward and show that it has the political will to allow a resolution of the problem."

The comments were made on the sidelines of crunch talks in Switzerland between senior officials from Iran, the US and five other world powers including US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team