Zee Media Bureau
Vienna: The crucial talks between Tehran and the six world powers on Iran`s controversial nuclear programme are due to take place in Vienna on Tuesday.
The meeting is taking place after the historic deal between Iran and Western powers – United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany - took place in Geneva in November last year.
Iran had agreed to limit its nuclear enrichment programme for six months in exchange for economic sanction relief and with no new sanction being imposed on the country.
Tehran`s uranium enrichment programme stirred controversy with the world powers claiming that it could be used to develop nuclear weapons. However, Tehran has always maintained that the uranium-enrichment programme is for peaceful purpose.
Ahead of the talks, Iran`s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the talks will “lead nowhere.”
He said that despite insistence by the officials of different countries, he is not hopeful that the talks will succeed.
