The U.S. State Department released a statement that Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns together with Undersecretary for Political Affairs Wendy R. Sherman and Senior Advisor Jacob J. Sullivan will be talking to Iran officials regarding Tehran's nuclear program.

Bilateral talks between the U.S. diplomats and Iranian officials, on hold for two months now, will take place in New York from Wednesday to Thursday.

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The U.S. and other countries have always suspected  the Iranian nuclear program, which may be a cover for developing nuclear weapons. The Iranians have denied the allegations and have said the project is for nonviolent purposes only.

Aside from talking about the nuclear program, the U.S. may ask Iran its position in the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL).

A major issue about the nuclear program is Iran's insistence on having not less that 10,000 centrifuges for producing enriched uranium. The West wants Iran to limit the number of centrifuges so that it would take a whole to produce enough uranium to make a bomb. Tehran, however, has said that they are not enriching uranium to produce nuclear weapons.

Sherman will first meet with representatives from Britain, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany starting Wednesday. The group will then meet with the Iranians by Friday.

The first meeting regarding the nuclear project reached an agreement saying that Iran must partially stop the nuclear operations. The deadline has been extended until November 24 this year. 

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