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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

Coming to you live from London, I'm Regina Vy Dinarban.

Well, let's begin with the latest on Iran and the country's foreign minister

Abbas Araghji is on his way from Tehran to Geneva for the second round of nuclear talks

with the US, which are due to take place on Tuesday. Well, his deputy, Majid Taktravanchi,

has told the BBC that Iran would consider compromises in those talks

if the US was willing to discuss lifting sanctions.

Meanwhile, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says any deal should ensure that Iran

would not be able to enrich uranium in the future.

The first is that all enriched material has to leave Iran.

The second is that there shall be no enrichment capability, not stopping the enrichment process,

but dismantle the equipment and the infrastructure that allows you to enrich

in the first place.

All of this as the region remains on edge. America has threatened strikes against the Islamic

Republic if a nuclear deal can't be reached. And there are concerns over human rights inside Iran, which persist

after January's violent crackdown on anti-government protests. So let's hear from Iran's deputy

foreign minister, Majid Taktravanchi, who's been speaking to my colleague, the BBC's

Lys Doucette, who is in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

We are ready to discuss this and other issues related to our program provided that they are ready

also to talk about the sanctions, because sanctions, as we call it, illegal sanctions,

that, you know, those sanctions have to be also on the table.

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