Iran Nuclear Talks Fall Through

It looks like Iran and the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany have agreed to disagree. Six-party talks in Istanbul over Iran’s nuclear program ended with no agreement, and no date set for the next round of talks. Iran insisted the U.N. drop sanctions and refused to discuss halting its enrichment program. At one point, Iran demanded the U.N. lift sanctions and stop asking Tehran to stop enriching uranium as a precondition to future talks. No date for future talks has been set. The dead-end wasn’t entirely unexpected: Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency told Iranian state TV as the talks began, “resolutions, sanctions, threats, computer virus nor even a military attack will stop uranium enrichment in Iran.” “Our doors remain open,” said E.U. foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton. “The process can go forward if Iran chooses to respond positively. We will now wait to see whether they do.”