ISTANBUL - Talks aimed at pushing Iran to worry about the demand of the Security Council of the UN to stop enriching uranium collapsed on Saturday with Iran ignored calls by six world powers to stop activity that could be exploited to nuclear weapons.
In announcing the failure of two days of talks, EU foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, said no new date for another meeting had been set. Charged that the review of six, unrealistic demands by Iran - an end to United Nations sanctions and the agreement that Iran would continue enriching - the disappointing results.
Six proposals to improve the control of the UN's nuclear activities was rejected by Tehran as an attempt to kickstart the dialogue revive a subset of the talks in Iran dedicated international shipping off some of its enriched uranium to fuel the move to its reactor research, "said Ashton.
"We were hoping for a thorough and constructive discussion of these ideas," she said. "But it became clear that Iran was not ready for it, if we accept the preconditions for the enrichment and sanctions.
"Both these conditions are not the way to go," he said.
Although no new talks were planned, Ashton said our proposal remains on the table.
"Our door remains open. Our lines are open.
"The process can move forward if Iran decides to respond positively," he said. "Now we must wait, if they are doing."
Tehran denies wants nuclear weapons, he insists he wants only to make peaceful use of nuclear energy, its rapid population growth. But it has grown - as the uranium enrichment program could also make the fissile material tested because of its nuclear secrets, and also for the Islamic Republic refuses to cooperate with UN efforts to investigate suspicions that ran the experiments related nuclear weapons.
Although the six went to the first day of talks on Friday formally focus on program freezing uranium enrichment, Tehran has repeatedly said this activity is not negotiable. Instead, Iranian officials came to the table with an agenda that covered almost everything except its nuclear program: global disarmament, Israel's presumed nuclear arsenal, and Tehran's concern about U.S. military bases in Iraq and elsewhere.
As the talks resumed Saturday, the Iranian delegate said Abolfazl Zohrevand atmosphere was "positive."
"Both sides expressed the desire that a solution can be achieved in order to achieve active cooperation in various fields," he told AP Television News.
But two other diplomats close to the negotiations, delegations have been less optimistic, suggesting shortly before the end of the meeting that the talks were in trouble because Iran to accede to their demands on the lifting of sanctions and acceptance of enrichment activities in Iran.