Iran’s top official in talks to end nuclear standoff

IRAN has said its top nuclear negotiator and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will hold their next talks on ending the nuclear standoff on July 19, despite Western concern over the test-firing of several missiles by Tehran.

“They are to continue their negotiations about the package on Saturday, July 19” in Geneva, said Ahmad Khadem al-Melleh, spokes-man for the secretariat of Iran’s supreme national security council, according to the state-run IRNA agency.

World powers last month presented Iran with a package aimed at ending the five-year-old nuclear crisis, notably offering Tehran technological incentives in exchange for suspending the sensitive process of uranium enrichment.