Iran nuclear talks resume for second day, prospects unclear

World powers insist Tehran scale back its highest grade uranium enrichment while Iran demands more sanctions relief

6 April 2013, 10:13 am

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EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, smiles, as Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili walks away, after a photo op at the start of high-level talks between world powers and Iranian officials in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Friday. (photo credit: AP/Shamil Zhumatov, Pool)

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Iran and six world powers are meeting for a second day in attempts to find common ground over concerns that Tehran’s nuclear program might be used to make weapons.

Chances of progress at Saturday’s session are unclear, however, after a first round ended with the two sides unable to reduce substantial differences.

The six insist Iran cut back on its highest grade uranium enrichment production and stockpile, fearing Tehran will divert it from making nuclear fuel to form the material used in the core of nuclear warhead.

Iran insists it has a right to enrich but says it has no interest to use the technology to make weapons. It wants more sanctions relief than the six are offering for any concessions on its part.