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Iran will consider any US proposal for nuclear talks

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Feb 22, IRNA -- Though Iran and the United States do not have 
diplomatic relations, Iran would consider any proposal from Washington
to hold talks on Iranian nuclear program, deputy head of the Institute
for Political and International Studies (IPIS) Mahmoud Vaezi said. 
He told reporters that the dispute about Iranian nuclear program 
has nothing to do with normalization of relations and Iran would 
consider if the United States offered to hold talks on the dispute. 
"Iran has made it clear that normalization of relations with the 
United States depends on a tangible shift in the US attitude toward 
Iran, but, on the specific topic of the nuclear program, Iran is ready
to enter into negotiations with the US to prove the civilian nature of
the nuclear program," Vaezi said. 
He said that Iran has no objection to the proposal made by 
Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed 
ElBaradei on Iran-US negotiations about nuclear dispute. 
"We can count on President George W. Bush`s latest statement 
supporting Iranian nuclear talks with the European Union (EU)," he 
said. 
"Iran exercised dynamic diplomacy in the past four years. You have
the experience of Iranian diplomacy over Afghanistan and Iraq. We 
considered any subject put forward by any country in light of our 
national interest in past four years and will do so in future," he 
said. 
"Iran is following active diplomacy over international issues in 
line with national interest through specialized committees of the 
United Nations where representatives of both Iran and the US are 
present. We can do the same on the nuclear dispute with Washington," 
Vaezi said. 
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