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Ahmadinejad: talks with US 'possible in near future'
AFP
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has struck a more
moderate tone towards the United States ahead of a key meeting
on Iran's nuclear drive, saying talks with its arch-enemy were
possible in the future.
"It is possible that in the near future talks
in different fields will take place with the United States,"
the state news agency IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in an
interview with state television late on Monday.
Washington broke off relations with Tehran in 1980 in the wake
of the Islamic revolution, and ties have remained severed ever
since amid increasing acrimony over the controversial Iranian
nuclear programme.
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However the United States is also one of six big powers which
have offered Iran negotiations on a package of incentives if Tehran
suspends uranium enrichment, a process the West fears could be
used to make nuclear weapons.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana -- who presented the offer
to Iran last month -- is due to hold his latest talks on the package
with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Geneva on Saturday.
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