Iran nuclear program talks reveal internal divisions between diplomats Partly because of the continuing disagreements, the six powers - the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia - are expected to skip the usual step of working out a common position before sitting down with Iran on Saturday here in Turkey's capital. Diplomats say the lack of an accord could allow greater flexibility in negotiations, but some acknowledge that Iran probably will try to exploit the divisions to gain advantage. "We really do not have a common view of what's the real offer to be made to Iran to bring it to serious negotiations," said Russian deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov, offering an unusually blunt assessment during a visit to Washington this week. He added that the six countries were united in wanting to avoid what he called a "disastrous" military strike on Iran by Israel, which says a nuclear Iran could pose a mortal threat to the Jewish state. We are all for a diplomatic solution. Other diplomats played down the disputes and insisted that the group was united in the areas that count the most. "We come at the issue from different points of view, but that has always been the case," said a European official, insisting on anonymity in discussing his country's views going into the talks. Still, the fractures among the six negotiating partners are complicating what already was viewed as a long-shot effort to persuade Iran to accept strict limits on its nuclear program. Iran's initial assent to attend the talks - the first in 15 months between the Islamic republic and the six-nation bloc known as the P5-plus-one - was followed by weeks of wrangling over dates and venues, as well as conflicting signals over whether Iran was prepared to negotiate seriously. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly insisted that Iran would never give up its right to make enriched uranium, and on Tuesday he boasted that his country could withstand years of financial hardship. "They - the West - intend to impose an embargo on our oil," Ahmadinejad said in a defiant speech carried live on state TV. We have as much hard currency as we need and the country will manage well, even if we don't sell a single barrel of oil for two or three years. At the same time, other Iranian officials have signaled a willingness to bargain. Borrowing from the West's diplomacy playbook, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran publicly floated a possible compromise this week, suggesting that his government might agree to stop making 20 percent enriched uranium, a more purified form of nuclear fuel that can be quickly converted to weapons-grade uranium.