Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the Iranian plan’s formal name was ‘An End to the Unnecessary Crisis and a Beginning for Fresh Horizons’. He described it as having many new ideas but added negotiators had agreed to keep the details confidential during the morning bargaining session.
‘We think that the proposal we have made has the capacity to make a breakthrough,’ he told reporters.
Alluding to the international pressure over Iran’s nuclear program that has driven the country into near-pariah status, he said, ‘We no longer want to walk in the dark and uncertainty and have doubts about the future.’
European Union official Michael Mann said Iran’s PowerPoint presentation lasted about one hour, which suggested that Tehran had come into the talks with a detailed plan to address international concerns about its nuclear agenda.
‘We heard a presentation this morning from Foreign Minister (Javad) Zarif. It was very useful,’ Mann told reporters.
Iran’s uranium enrichment program is at the core of the six world powers’ concerns. Iran now has more than 10,000 centrifuges churning out enriched uranium, which can be used either to power reactors or as the fissile core of a nuclear bomb.
Iran has long insisted it does not want nuclear arms - a claim the US and its allies have been skeptical about - but has resisted international attempts to verify its aims.
Yet Tehran is now under international sanctions that are biting deeply into its troubled economy.
‘We think that the proposal we have made has the capacity to make a breakthrough,’ he told reporters.
Alluding to the international pressure over Iran’s nuclear program that has driven the country into near-pariah status, he said, ‘We no longer want to walk in the dark and uncertainty and have doubts about the future.’
European Union official Michael Mann said Iran’s PowerPoint presentation lasted about one hour, which suggested that Tehran had come into the talks with a detailed plan to address international concerns about its nuclear agenda.
‘We heard a presentation this morning from Foreign Minister (Javad) Zarif. It was very useful,’ Mann told reporters.
Iran’s uranium enrichment program is at the core of the six world powers’ concerns. Iran now has more than 10,000 centrifuges churning out enriched uranium, which can be used either to power reactors or as the fissile core of a nuclear bomb.
Iran has long insisted it does not want nuclear arms - a claim the US and its allies have been skeptical about - but has resisted international attempts to verify its aims.
Yet Tehran is now under international sanctions that are biting deeply into its troubled economy.