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P5+1, Iran Resume Talks 2 Weeks After Last Round

The on-again, off-again talks between Iran and the world powers known as the P5+1 will resume in Istanbul on Tuesday, July 24, at a low level, The Jerusalem Post reported. Helga Schmid, the deputy secretary-general of the European External Action Service, is scheduled to meet Ali Bagheri, the deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. According to a statement from the office of E.U. foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, this meeting will be followed by another between Ashton and Saeed Jalili, the secretary of Iran’s National Security Council, about “the prospects for a future meeting at the political level.” Tuesday’s meeting will be the first since technical talks were held between the two sides in Istanbul three weeks ago. Visiting Israel last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the proposals Iran put forward so far were “non-starters.”