(14 Apr 2012) 1. Various of Saeed Jalili, Iran''s top nuclear negotiator during interview
2. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Saeed Jalili, Iran''s top nuclear negotiator:
"In this round of talks we are in the early stages so we could not talk about anything achieved. We are very hopeful that the talks for cooperation, which started well today, will continue. We believe that the approach and strategy of exerting pressure and also using threatening language is not going to produce answers - nor will it work for Iranians."
3. Mid of Jalili with press
4. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Saeed Jalili, Iran''s top nuclear negotiator:
"Today we had a very good agreement based upon comprehensive and sustainable cooperation which is going to be formed within the framework for talks. Our deputies have been mandated to facilitate a framework for these talks and if we could adopt this framework we are very hopeful for additional positive steps in the Baghdad talks."
5. Cutaway of banner reading (English) "Nuclear energy for all"
6. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Saeed Jalili, Iran''s top nuclear negotiator:
"For more than 30 years, a large wall of mistrust and lack of confidence existed between Iran and the US. As long as such a wall of mistrust and lack of confidence exists, I don''t see a good outlook for such talks (meeting with the US side) now.
7. Mid of Jalili with Turkish reporter
STORYLINE:
In a rare show of unity, Iran and the world''s big powers on Saturday hailed their first nuclear meeting in more than a year as a key step toward further negotiations meant to ease international fears that Tehran may weaponise its nuclear programme.
Iran''s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, revealed a positive outlook for continued talks on the subject.
"We are very hopeful that the talks for cooperation, which started well today, will continue," Jalili said.
"We had a very good agreement based upon comprehensive and sustainable cooperation which is going to be formed within the framework for talks," he added.
The one concrete reflection of progress was an agreement to meet again on 23 May in Baghdad, a venue put forward by Iran.
"We are very hopeful for additional positive steps in the Baghdad talks," Jalili said.
But huge hurdles still lie in the way of a common understanding of what Iran should do to end suspicions of its nuclear activities.
Those barriers may prove insurmountable considering the differences between Tehran and the six nations trying to persuade it to compromise on its nuclear efforts.
Since revelations surfaced 10 years ago that it was secretly building a uranium enrichment programme, Tehran has argued it has a right to enrichment to create reactor fuel under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and insisted it will never use that ability to create the fissile core of a nuclear warhead.
But the United States and other countries accuse Iran of repeatedly violating the treaty, and Tehran continues to expand enrichment despite four sets of UN Security Council resolutions and other penalties imposed by the US, Europe and others.
It has led to a climate of "mistrust" that Jalili said continues to threaten any potential agreement between his country and the US.
"As long as such a wall of mistrust and lack of confidence exists, I don''t see a good outlook for such talks," Jalili said.
The talks in Istanbul on Saturday saw the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany sitting at the same table with Iran.
Knowing the road ahead is tough, both sides focused on what they said was the positive tone of the talks, in contrast to the previous round 14 months ago.
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