Iran seeks renewed talks with familiar demands

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian officials have made no secret about their desire to reopen nuclear talks with the U.S. and other world powers as economic sanctions dig deeper — with Iran’s supreme leader even depicting his envoys as waiting at the negotiating table.

But Tehran’s proposals remain essentially echoes of demands made during previous rounds of dead-end talks that tried to force the West into a corner: Whether or not to allow the Islamic Republic to keep some level of uranium enrichment despite worries the labs could become the foundation for an eventual nuclear weapons program.