Progress made over Iran nuclear talks

A UNITED Nations nuclear team has said it plans to revisit Tehran “in the very near future”, indicating progress on its quest to get information from Iran about claims that it has been secretly working on an atomic arms programme.

The announcement yesterday from mission leader Herman Nackaerts came shortly after his team landed at Vienna airport following three days of talks with Iranian officials.

He gave no details on what the International Atomic Energy Agency experts had achieved, but diplomats said before their departure that their main focus was to break Iranian resistance to talking about the weapons programme allegations.

“We had three days of intensive discussions about all our priorities, and we are committed to resolve all the outstanding issues,” Mr Nackaerts said.

“But of course there’s still a lot of work to be done. So we have planned another trip in the very near future.”