Six World Powers Prepare for Talks with Iran

(01 Oct 09 - RV) The United States will hold direct talks with Iran at a meeting in Geneva today, along with France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China.
The US and its Western allies have made clear they will focus on Iran's disputed nuclear programme, which they suspect is aimed at making bombs.
Washington has suggested possible new sanctions on banking and the oil and gas industry if Iran, fails to assuage Western fears it seeks nuclear weapons. But Mark Fitzpatrick, a senior fellow for non-proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, say that Iran has it’s own agenda for the meeting...