President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran was ready to resume long-stalled nuclear talks with world powers in September, the Islamic republic's English-language Press TV reported on Tuesday. "Iran will resume nuclear talks with the West in September," the channel quoted the hardliner as saying. But Ahmadinejad added that "Iran wants Turkey and Brazil to participate in the negotiations." Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki had said this month that talks over Tehran's overall nuclear programme could begin in September after EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton reached out to Iran in a letter in June. The Iranian president's comments came after the European Union slapped fresh sanctions on Iran's key energy sector on Monday in a bid to halt its sensitive uranium enrichment programme.