IRAQ: Iran's top negotiator Saeed Jalili meets Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ahead of Baghdad talks between Jalili and six major powers on Tehran's nuclear programme
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IRAQ: Iran's top negotiator Saeed Jalili meets Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ahead of Baghdad talks between Jalili and six major powers on Tehran's nuclear programme
- Title: IRAQ: Iran's top negotiator Saeed Jalili meets Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ahead of Baghdad talks between Jalili and six major powers on Tehran's nuclear programme
- Date: 22nd May 2012
- Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MAY 22, 2012) (REUTERS) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) IRAQ'S PM NURI AL-MALIKI AND IRAN'S TOP NEGOTIATOR SAEED JALILI SEATED IRANIAN DELEGATION JALILI SEATED MALIKI SEATED MALIKI, JALILI AND IRANIAN DELEGATION SEATED VARIOUS OF MALIKI, JALILI AND THE IRAQI DELEGATION (AUDIO AS INCOMING)
- Embargoed: 6th June 2012 13:00
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- Location: Iraq
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- Country: Iraq
- Topics: International Relations,Politics
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- Story Text: Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday (May 22), a day before crucial nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States, and Germany.
World powers want Iran to curb uranium enrichment, which can yield fuel for nuclear power plants or for nuclear bombs, depending on the level of refinement.
Iran, to general disbelief from its Israeli and Western adversaries, insists its nuclear programme is intended only to generate electricity in a country that is one of the world's top oil exporters and to produce isotopes for cancer treatment.
In Baghdad, the powers' main goal is to get Iran to stop the higher-grade uranium enrichment it started two years ago and has since expanded, shortening the time needed for any weapons bid.
Iran says it needs uranium enriched to a fissile concentration of 20 percent for its medical isotope reactor. Enrichment to 5 percent of fissile purity is suitable for power plant fuel, while 90 percent constitutes fuel for bombs. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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