"They joined the talks maintaining their own view, but Iran said the talks should continue based on Iran's conditions. So they have shown serious change," Saeed Jalili said of the talks that resumed this week.

"We frankly asked that talks should be for the sake of cooperation, and they accepted. If they remain committed to this agreement, then the talks have been successful," he said in an interview carried on state television's website.

After a 14-month break, the talks on the Islamic republic's nuclear programme resumed in Geneva this week, with an agreement to meet again in Istanbul at the end of January despite clear differences.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said after the two days of talks ended on Tuesday that it was agreed to hold the Istanbul talks to "discuss practical ideas and ways of cooperating towards the resolution of our core concerns about the nuclear issue."

Barely an hour later, however, Jalili said both sides agreed only to further "talks based on cooperation" and that everything else was "not true."

Iran is under four sets of UN sanctions over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, the sensitive process which can be used to make nuclear fuel or, in highly extended form, the fissile core of an atom bomb.

Tehran rejects suspicions by the West and Israel that its uranium enrichment programme masks a covert bid to acquire nuclear weapons, maintaining it is developing nuclear technology for solely peaceful purposes.

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