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Majlis speaker terms Iran`s nuclear talks as progressive

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Nov 10, IRNA -- Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel said on 
Wednesday that the (nuclear) talks between Iran and the EU troika has 
shown good progress, expressing hope that the talks will go on 
successfully. 
Speaking to reporters at the new site of the Majlis, he termed the
talks as Iran`s diplomacy power which will bring about positive 
results. 
The Iranian representatives (to the talks) do their best to 
proceed with the negotiations, he said, adding that they make efforts 
to put to use all the potentials to secure national interests. 
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the other 
parties involved the talks with Iran have reached to this belief that 
Iran is determined to defend its peaceful achievements for making use 
of nuclear technology. 
Turning to the extension of US sanctions against Iran, Haddad Adel
said, "This country has resorted to hostile policies against Iran 
during the last 25 years though the policies have not brought about 
benefits for the US." 
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday extended for one year a 
range of financial sanctions first imposed on Iran in November 1979, 
the White House announced in a statement. 
The original sanctions, imposed by the US then-president Jimmy 
Carter, froze assets of Iran`s government following the November 1979 
takeover of the US embassy in Tehran. 
Haddad Adel also attached importance to the International Qods 
Day, saying, "The International Qods Day is the day of solidarity of 
Iranian nation and the world of Islam with the oppressed people of 
Palestine." 
Concerning the fate of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who is
in coma and critical condition sine last Thursday, Haddad Adel 
stressed that the Palestinian nation will determine their own fate. 
Arafat, who was evacuated from his headquarters the Muqataa in the
West Bank on October 29, has been in a coma in a military hospital on 
the outskirts of Paris, and Palestinian officials have said his fate 
is now `in the hands of God`. 
Majlis speaker said that the Palestinian nation should be vigilant
not to be trapped by the Zionism plots and go on with their movement 
to obtain their undeniable rights. 
Regarding Iran`s policy over the solution of the Palestine`s 
crisis, he stressed the policy the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei 
has taken on Palestine that is holding elections in the occupied 
territories among the Muslims, Christians and Jews and determining the
rights of the occupied Palestine based on the results of the 
elections. 
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