, katherine ashton, the former policy representative for the european union sent a letter to said jaledi, the iranian negotiator on the nuclear issue to say she accepted talks which he proposed earlier. these talks are between six nations, britain, china, france, germany, united states, and russia, the two five plus one and these are the five permanent security council members and they are -- they have been negotiating with iran since about 2006. a crisis that began in 2002 when it was revealed iran was in hiding nuclear for 72 decades. the talks have not gone well. there has been several side posts along the way and not to go through the whole history but what brings us up to what's happening now is in october of 2009 there was a meeting at which the two sides agreed to a fuel swap where iran would ship out most of the enriched uranium it made and in return forgetting fuel for a research reactor in tehran which makes medical isotopes and the idea behind that and the talks in general is it would be a confidence building measure. iran would have shipped out most of its enriched uranium th