Iran: No secret talks with US

Iran on Tuesday denied media reports claiming that Tehran and Washington are holding secret talks parallel to the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the world powers, Fars news agency reported. “There is no secret talks underway between Iran and the US,” Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said in her weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday. “The nuclear issue was discussed during the negotiations and within the framework of the talks with the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany),” she added. Western media claimed recently that the United States and Iran have been secretly engaged in a series of high-level, face-to-face talks over the past year that paved the way for the historic deal reached between Tehran and the six powers in Geneva.