Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on Sunday for new proposals from the major powers in talks on its nuclear programme that are due to resume on October 15.
Zarif said that the previous offer, made by the so-called P5+1 group at two meetings in Kazakhstan in February and April before President Hassan Rouhani’s June election was no longer valid. “The previous offer by the P5+1 is history and they should come to the negotiating table with a new approach,” the ISNA news agency quoted Zarif. Those proposals required Iran to suspend enrichment of uranium to the 20 per cent central.