Iran: Still open to nuclear talks

Iran remains ready to engage in negotiations with world powers concerned about its nuclear programme, its Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.

"We have always announced that we are ready for positive and useful negotiations but, as we have mentioned repeatedly, the condition for those talks to be successful is that we enter those negotiations in a stance of equality and respect for nations' rights," Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying by the website of Iran's Arabic language al-Alam television. (Reuters)