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Two days of talks between Iran and six world powers over Tehrans disputed nuclear program concluded late Thursday with an agreement to meet again in Moscow next month.
There was no sign that any of the many differences over how to address world concerns about Irans nuclear ambitions had been bridged. But, according to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, it was a sign of progress that Iran had agreed to attend further talks.
“It is clear that we both want to make progress and that there is some common ground, she told reporters after more than 11 hours of talks Thursday. “However, significant differences remain.
The next round of talks will be held in Moscow on June 17-19, she said.
The development came after Iran rejected a new package of proposals put forward by the six world powers, including the United States, at a marathon session Wednesday. U.S. officials said the extension of the talks into Thursday suggested there was still hope that the crisis over Irans nuclear program could be resolved through diplomacy.
The package contained what U.S. officials said were confidence-building measures that Iran would need to take to demonstrate that its nuclear program is not aimed at producing a weapon. The measures are believed to include a halt to Irans contentious uranium-enrichment program.
But there was no offer of immediate relief from the biting economic sanctions that are hurting Irans economy and, notably, no proposal to reconsider a potentially crippling prohibition on Iranian oil exports by the European Union that is to go into effect July 1, a top priority for Tehran.
Irans official Islamic Republic News Agency condemned the package as “outdated, not comprehensive and unbalanced.
“There is no balance, and there is nothing to get in return, the news agency said.
The United States and its allies have been particularly concerned about Irans enrichment of uranium to 20 percent  above the 5 percent concentration of “low-enriched uranium needed to fuel reactors in nuclear power plants but well below the 85 percent or higher “weapons grade fissile material used in atomic bombs. Iran has insisted that it needs 5 percent enriched uranium to fuel nuclear power plants and 20 percent material to power a medical research reactor in Tehran.
U.N. Security Council resolutions have called on Iran to stop enriching uranium altogether, a position that Western powers have continued to take in talks with Tehran. Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has insisted on developing an independent nuclear fuel cycle. He has also repeatedly denied that Iran wants nuclear weapons, which he has declared to be forbidden by Islam.
The chasm between the six powers and the Iranians on such core issues as sanctions and uranium enrichment deepened pessimism about the likelihood of a deal.
“The West cant give enough on sanctions, and Iran wont concede enough on the nuclear side  at least not yet, said Aaron David Miller, a former senior adviser to the State Department on Middle East issues. In the meantime, he said, the talks are being kept alive as a “management exercise driven by Irans vulnerability and need for sanctions relief and the Wests fear of war.