 Iran softened its tone amid a crisis over its disputed nuclear program, with a senior national security official saying the country had made a "strategic choice" to pursue negotiations. "Negotiations are Iran's strategic choice in the nuclear issue, and we think that there is no other way forward except through talks," Ali Agha Mohammadi, spokesman for Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told the student news agency ISNA. "Iran wants its nuclear case to be transparent and other countries want to ease their concerns through negotiations, so therefore the only solution to reach these objectives is to talk," he added. |