Diplomats from the U.S. and five other countries are in Turkey this weekend for key talks with Iranian officials on Iran’s nuclear activities. The talks are being held following the imposition of harsher international sanctions as well as continued threats of military attack from Israel or the United States. In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. will seek new assurances from Iran that it’s not pursuing a nuclear arsenal.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “We are receiving signals that they are bringing ideas to the table. They assert that their program is purely peaceful. They point to a fatwa that the Supreme Leader has issued against the pursuit of nuclear weapons. We want them to demonstrate, clearly, in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.”