{"id":1393,"date":"2013-10-15T17:25:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransview.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2013-10-16T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T10:31:25","slug":"irans-5-step-geneva-packagerealistic-promising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iransview.com\/irans-5-step-geneva-packagerealistic-promising\/1393\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s 5-Step Geneva Package:Realistic, Promising"},"content":{"rendered":"
Iran and the five permanent members of UN Security Council plus Germany gathered in Geneva for the fourth time to discuss the protracted nuclear case of the Islamic Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n Today, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif, who is in charge of the nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 since the moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani took the office in the June 14 presidential election, presented a new proposal from Iran during the 1st round of talks and left his deputy Abbas Araghchi in room to lead the Iranian negotiating team.<\/span><\/p>\n Iranian diplomats also began lobbying to the P5+1 few days before the talks when Morteza Sarmadi another deputy of the Iranian foreign minister visited Beijing on the eve of the nuclear talks.<\/span><\/p>\n Abbas Araqchi also had a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Ryabcov on the sidelines of the plenary meeting on Tuesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n Russia and China, as two members of the P5+1 play a key role in balancing the group\u2019s stance towards Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n During the talks, having been previously headed by hardliner Saeed Jalili, Iran and the P5+1 failed to reach a consensus even on what topics they should focus on.<\/span><\/p>\n Political observers in Tehran maintain that one of the most important obstacles in the former rounds of talks was that the two sides did not have a common objective and the talk sessions proceeded with unrelated, disorderly discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n