The last round of the talks between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) was held in Almaty on February 26-27.
During the talks Iran and the world powers agreed to hold an experts meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 17-18 and then continue their talks at the level of their top negotiators in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on April 5-6.
According to a report by Norway's Radio Austin, diplomatic circles in Europe have announced that the next meeting between Iran and G5+1 will witness a real change in the Iran-West nuclear standoff and at the end of the day "the Europeans will announce a partial removal of economic sanctions against Iran".
The report said that Europeans have realized that softening Iran's economic sanctions is a must since they have failed to prevent Iran from installing thousands of new generation centrifuges and the economic sanctions have left no impact on the activities of Iranian scientists.
The report came after Iran voiced optimism about the removal of the West's unjust sanctions in the new Iranian year (to start March 21).
The announced was made by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in a joint press conference with his Benin counterpart Nassirou Arifari Bako in Tehran on Sunday.
Based on the latest information, the next Iranian year will be promising for lifting the sanctions, the Iranian minister said.
He said that the time is ripe to resolve the nuclear dispute with the western governments.
In similar remarks last week Salehi said the US-led West would hopefully start gradual removal of the sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
"With the measures devised by the Iranian diplomatic apparatus, we will witness the gradual removal of the sanctions from now on," Salehi said on Sunday.
"The enemy claimed last year that crippling sanctions against Iran were on their way; however, they themselves have admitted that sanctions have not had much impact in Iran."
"If the enemy has spent $100 to impose sanctions on Iran, it has not benefitted and reaped even $10 in return," the minister added.
