World leaders hold nuclear talks Thursday with Iran's top diplomat, amid fresh signs Tehran is looking to negotiate a settlement to the dispute.
The meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly is aimed at restarting the so-called P5+1 nuclear talks, which were last held in April. It will mark the highest level interaction in six years between Washington and Tehran, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif attend the meeting, along with officials from Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany.
The talks comes a day after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said he wants a deal with the West on his country's nuclear program in three to six months.
President Rouhani told the Washington Post Wednesday the "only way forward" is for a timeline to be inserted into the talks, saying a quicker deal is "more beneficial to everyone."
Mr. Rouhani also said Iran is willing to take unspecified transparency measures to show its uranium enrichment program is peaceful.