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Unfreeze money and we'll talk, Rafsanjani tells US
Iran will agree to renew dialogue with arch-foe Washington if it releases Iranian assets frozen since the Islamic revolution, presidential frontrunner Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was quoted as saying on Wednesday. "As I have said before, a goodwill gesture on the part of the United States would be for them to unblock our assets," the top Shiite cleric said in an interview with the hardline Jomhuri Islami newspaper. "If such a gesture was made, we could enter into negotiations. This has been my position and I still think the same way," the 70-year-old Rafsanjani said.Iran and the United States cut off relations in 1980, a year after the revolution, and Iranian assets in the US were frozen. Rafsanjani has previously said the figure is at least eight billion dollars plus interest. Posted by: Fred 2005-06-09 |
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