“The Islamic Republic of Iran has been successful in the nuclear talks with the P5+1 (Permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany),” Chairman of Iran's Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Wednesday.
“Iran's talks with the P5+1 indicate that not only can Tehran cope, but it has also acted successfully, despite the fact that all of the global capacities have been stacked against it,” he pointed out.
The next round of the expert-level talks between Iran and the P5+1 over Tehran’s nuclear energy program has been scheduled to be held in the Turkish city of Istanbul on July 24.
A spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Monday the talks would continue after the July 24 meeting between Deputy Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Baqeri and Helga Schmid, a senior member of Ashton's team.
The spokesman added that SNSC Secretary Saeed Jalili and Ashton would remain in contact in the future.
The last expert-level meeting between Iran and the P5+1 representatives was held in Istanbul on July 3.
Iran and the P5+1 agreed to hold the expert-level talks during their negotiations in the Russian capital, Moscow, in June.
The Moscow meeting came after three sessions of plenary talks in Baghdad in May and an earlier round of negotiations in Istanbul in mid-April.
The two sides had, prior to the Istanbul talks, held two rounds of negotiations, one in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2010, and another again in Istanbul in January 2011.
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