Iran Agrees to Nuclear Talks in Turkey, Reports Say Negotiations over Iran's nuclear standoff with the West will resume this week in Istanbul, Iranian news media reported on Sunday, after a diplomatic back and forth over the location of the talks caused friction between Iran and Turkey. The return to negotiations on Friday, after a year of tightening sanctions over what the West believes is a program to develop nuclear weapons, had been in doubt after Iran and the other countries involved in the talks - the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany - released conflicting statements about where they would be held. Iran had voiced concerns about holding them in Turkey, publicly questioning its neutrality. The two nations disagree on at least two critical areas of foreign policy: Turkey opposes Iran's ally, President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and Turkey supports a NATO missile shield intended to stop Iranian missiles. The challenge to Turkey elicited a strong rebuke from the country's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who accused Iran of "losing credibility in the world" by suggesting the talks be moved to Syria or Iraq only about a week before they began - a proposal he said Iran knew would be rejected. But "after weeks of debates, Iran and the six world powers agreed to attend a first meeting in Istanbul," the semiofficial Fars news agency reported, citing unnamed sources. The state-run English language Press TV carried the same report. The Fars news agency also said the sides had agreed to a second round of talks in Baghdad if there was progress in Istanbul.