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| Hosseini: No change in US officials stance |
| 2007-07-09 |
| Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said here Sunday no change has been made in the policies and performance of the US officials. Hosseini made the remark while addressing domestic and foreign reporters at his weekly press conference. He rejected any link between UN Security Council decision to postpone Iran's peaceful nuclear case and the second round of talks between Iran and US on Iraq. "These are two separate matters," the spokesman said. Asked whether the US has expressed its readiness to hold the second round of negotiations with Iran on Iraq, he added, "They have not clarified the issue yet." Hosseini stressed, "The idea of timeout is not on agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. "Timeout is an old idea raised by different states but it cannot help settle the dispute over Iran's nuclear case." He added, "Tehran stresses on talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)." In response to a question on a consular visit on Saturday between Iranian embassy officials and the five Iranian diplomats detained by the US forces in Iraq in January and its impact on the second round of Tehran-Washington talks, the spokesman said, "These are also two separate issues." |
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