Iran has begun to make progress with world powers from the United States, China, France, Great Britain, Russia and Germany in its nuclear weapon talks.
While no agreements have been made yet, the most recent talk on Wednesday has been more progressive than ones in the past.
The other leaders have tried to “get closer to our viewpoint,” Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said, according to Reuters.
However, the United States is still hoping Iran will dispose of its nuclear weapons.
“Iran knows what it needs to do, the president has made clear his determination to implement his policy that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said, Reuters reported.
The U.S. is not just concerned about the nuclear weapons themselves, but rather the level of uranium Iran is using as it has continued to enrich uranium to level of 20 percent, with 90 percent of uranium needed for a nuclear bomb, according to CNN.
Iran’s leaders will continue to hold talks about its nuclear weapons with diplomats from several countries, including the United States next month in Istanbul, Reuters reported.
Iran is not the only nuclear threat, as the United States has faced similar issues with North Korea and Israel. Just this month North Korea announced it had continued with nuclear testing.
While Israel has yet to disclose information about whether or not it actually has nuclear weapons, North Korea has launched two tests in the past year, one of which failed and the other caused seismic activity that was registered across the globe.
North Korea has blamed the United States for the rising nuclear tensions because it says the United States should not be able to infringe on North Korea’s nuclear weapons development.
“The U.S. should no longer be allowed to seriously infringe upon the independent right of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to use space for peaceful purposes nor should it be allowed to abuse the U.N. Security Council as a tool for executing its hostile policy toward the DPRK,” So Se Pyong, North Korea’s ambassador said, according to The Independent.
Though some progress has seemingly been made in talks with Iran, no further progress has been made with North Korea since the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
