Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Wednesday that the Islamic republic considers Iraq and China as the potential venues for the upcoming nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

With Istanbul still being one of the options for the upcoming nuclear talks, China and Iraq are also considered by Iran as the venues for the April 13 talks between Iran and the five permanent members of UN Security Council (the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China) plus Germany, known as P5+1.

Iran's state IRIB TV said Tuesday that Iraq has offered to host the upcoming nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1, but Iraq's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that Tehran has asked Baghdad to host the upcoming round of talks between the six world powers and Iran over its disputed nuclear program, instead of Istanbul.

Iran's decision on the place of the talks will be announced after Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili consulted it with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Salehi was quoted as saying by Mehr on Wednesday.

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