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VIENNA, March 18 (UPI) -- Iran wants to work toward a draft agreement on a comprehensive solution to a lingering nuclear row with Western powers, the foreign minister said Tuesday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met Tuesday in Vienna with Catherine Ashton, the foreign policy chief for the European Union, to discuss prospects for a comprehensive nuclear agreement.

Iran agreed to curb its nuclear research activity in exchange for relief from Western economic sanctions in November. Zarif said Tuesday enrichment issues, peaceful nuclear cooperation and the removal of sanctions were among the items on the table during talks in Vienna.

"We hope that in this round and next rounds we could be able to prepare the draft of the comprehensive plan," he was quoted by Iran's semiofficial Mehr News Agency as saying.

Zarif said Monday he wasn't optimistic about this week's talks. Negotiations later this week may be at the deputy level, the Iranian government said.

Ashton frustrated Iranian officials when she met with female dissidents during her trip last week to Tehran.

Her spokesman, Michael Mann, was quoted by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency as saying Tuesday's talks were constructive.

"Good progress" was made Tuesday and there is "no reason to believe" negotiations wouldn't continue in good faith, he said.

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FOR MONTHS, senior Iranian officials have tacitly acknowledged that the imprisonment of The Washington Posts Tehran correspondent, Jason Rezaian, is unjust. The secretary of Irans Human Rights Council, Mohammed Javad Larijani, called it a fiasco; in early November he expressed the hope that the case would be dropped in less than a month. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in September that he knew Mr.Rezaian to be a fair reporter and had hoped all along that his detention would be short.

That makes it particularly shocking that Mr.Rezaian would have been charged by a court on Saturday in Tehran. The nature of the charges has not been disclosed, nor has any evidence against Mr.Rezaian been publicly presented by Iranian officials. As of Monday he had been imprisoned for 139 days, longer than any Western journalist who has been detained in the country.

As Mr.Rezaians family and the State Department have pointed out, the conditions in which he has been held violate Irans own laws. He has been denied access to a lawyer as well as bail. He has not been allowed any visitors other than his wife, who was arrested with him on July22 and released in early October. His physical and psychological health are suffering; his family says he suffers from high blood pressure, an eye infection and back pain.

Most important, Mr.Rezaian should never have been arrested and imprisoned in the first place, as Post Executive Editor Martin Baron recently put it. A dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, Mr. Rezaian returned to Iran as a journalist because he hoped to promote understanding between the two countries. Since 2012 he has reported for The Post not just on political developments in Tehran but also on social issues and cultural developments, including a nascent Iranian appetite for baseball.

As Secretary of State John F. Kerry put it in a statement Sunday, Jason poses no threat to the Iranian government or to Irans national security. Haleh Esfandiari, a Washington-based Iranian American scholar who was imprisoned in 2007, pointed out last week that the very fact Mr.Rezaian was held for so long without charge suggests that Irans Intelligence Ministry has been struggling to concoct a case that would hold up even in Iranian courts.

Mr. Kerry said that he was personally dismayed and disturbed at reports of Mr. Rezaians prosecution as I have repeatedly raised Jasons case ... directly with Iranian officials. Separately, Mr.Kerry said in an appearance at a conference Sunday that an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program could be reached in three or four months. That assertion was jarring in light of Mr.Rezaians case, along with the disclosure than Iran may have illicitly sought equipment for a nuclear reactor. If Iranian officials are unresponsive in the case of Mr.Rezaian, how can they be expected to deliver on commitments they make with respect to the nuclear program?

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