Iranian and German ministers greet each other.

Ynet – Major powers offered Iran limited sanctions relief in return for a halt to the most controversial part of its atomic work during the first day of nuclear talks on Tuesday, and Iran promised to respond with a proposal on the same scale.

The talks in Kazakhstan were the first in eight months between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany – the “P5+1” – on a decade-old dispute that threatens to trigger another war in the Middle East.

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