Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is optimistic about talks in Geneva over Iran’s nuclear program.
Putin was speaking after talks in Moscow with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He added he and Netanyahu discussed the dispute over Iran in detail and both sides hoped a "mutually acceptable resolution" could soon be found.
Netanyahu suggested that the Syrian chemical weapons disarmament plan offers reason to hope an agreement could be reached over Iran’s nuclear program.
Their talks come as Iran and six world powers, including Russia, sat down for a new round of negotiations in Geneva. Israel sees a nuclear-armed Iran as a mortal threat and wants its uranium enrichment capabilities dismantled and its enriched uranium removed. Tehran denies building atomic weapons.
