Azerbaijan, Baku, July 24 /Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/
The nuclear talks between Iran and the 5+1 group have begun in Turkey's Istanbul today, Iranian media outlets reported.
The talks are being held between Ali Bagheri and Helga Shmidt, deputies of Iran's nuclear chief Saeed Jalili and EU's Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton.
The place of the talks has been left undisclosed.
The so-called 5+1 nations - China, Germany, France, Britain, Russia and the United States - suspect Iran of building a nuclear weapon and are pressing the Islamic republic to halt its nuclear enrichment activities.
Tehran insists that its nuclear programme is of a peaceful nature.
Following a breakdown in talks between the two sides in Moscow in mid-June, the leading negotiators - European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili - agreed to move ahead with expert-level contacts in the interim.