Zarif: Historic opportunity to change course

In a five-minute Foreign Ministry video released on the eve of the talks, FM Mohammad Javad Zarif said there was a chance to end the stand-off as long as Western powers dealt with Iran on an "equal footing" and did not seek to impose their will on others.

"This past summer, our people chose constructive engagement through the ballot box, and through this, they gave the world a historic opportunity to change course," Zarif said in the video posted online with subtitles in several languages. (Reuters)