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News number: 8904071532
19:53 | 2010-06-28
Nuclear
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Ahmadinejad Announces Iran's Conditions for Future N. Talks
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday announced that following the recent developments, Tehran now has three conditions for continuing nuclear talks with the world powers.
"Continuation of the talks requires that parties to the talks with Iran declare their views about Iran's questions transparently," Ahmadinejad said in a news conference here in Tehran today.
"We ask them (Iran's negotiating partners) to announced their stance on the Zionist regime's (Israel) atomic bombs," Ahmadinejad said, explaining that Tehran will have different approaches for talks with those states which support and those which do not support possession of atomic bombs by the Israeli regime.
Commenting on Tehran's second condition for the talks, President Ahmadinejad asked the other sides involved in nuclear talks with Iran to announce their commitment to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) clearly and transparently.
As regards the third condition, Ahmadinejad said, "These countries should declare what they are seeking through talks with Iran. Do they want to befriend us or do they seek enmity?"
Meantime, Ahmadinejad called for new negotiating partners, and said more countries should be involved in the talks over Iran's nuclear issue.
The current talks involve Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council member states plus Germany).
President Ahmadinejad further announced Iran's decision to postpone talks with the world powers until August in a move to punish the West.
"We will postpone the talks to the end of Mordad (mid August)… and we will resume negotiations then so that they behave themselves and learn how to speak with the other nations," he said.
Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
The western powers adopted a new round of sanctions against Iran just days after Brazil, Turkey and Iran reached an agreement which could resolve one of the longstanding nuclear debates between Tehran and West.
The western approach and measure caused deep anger not only in Iran, but also in Brazil and Turkey which had both entered talks with Iran at West's request.
Both nations gave a negative vote to the US-sponsored sanctions resolution against Iran at the UN Security Council on June 9.