Iran includes sanction experts in nuclear negotiating team: official

Four sanction experts from the banking, trade, oil and transportation sectors have been added to Iran's nuclear negotiating team, local media reported Thursday.

Iran's nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi said Thursday that nuclear and sanctions experts from Iran and the six world powers are to meet in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Oct. 30 and 31 in the run-up to the upcoming nuclear talks in Geneva, according to Press TV.

At the expert-level meeting in Vienna, Iran's seven-member team of experts will be led by Foreign Ministry's director general for political affairs Hamid Baeedinejad, said Araqchi.

After the latest round of nuclear meeting with the powers in Geneva, Iran announced that for the next round of talks with the P5+1 group -- the United States, China, Russia, France and Britain plus Germany -- it will include sanction experts in the hope for a deal on easing the international and Western embargoes against the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear program.

Iran and the P5+1 countries held a fresh round of talks in Geneva on Oct. 15-16, and agreed to meet again in the Swiss city on Nov. 7-8. They also agreed for an expert-level meeting before the November talks.

On Thursday, Araqchi said that he will meet with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano in Vienna on Oct. 28, according to the official IRNA news agency.

The meeting will take place before the upcoming Iran-IAEA talks scheduled to be held in Vienna on Oct. 28-29, Araqchi was quoted as saying.

On Sept. 27, Iran expressed its willingness to reach an agreement with the IAEA over nuclear inspection after the talks were held between Iranian new negotiation team and the UN nuclear agency in Vienna.

On Wednesday, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran ( AEOI), Ali-Akbar Salehi, also said Tehran is also prepared to voluntarily cooperate with the IAEA on "outstanding issues" related to its nuclear program.

He said that his country is prepared to cooperate with the IAEA over "the issues raised about possible military dimension to its nuclear program, although the matter is outside the purview of the UN agency."

"The only unresolved dispute between Iran and the IAEA is the discussion of a possible military dimension to the country's peaceful nuclear program," he added.