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Paper hopes Iran-EU new talks help Tehran enjoy its N-rights

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Nov 26, IRNA
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A morning daily Saturday hoped that new round of Iran-EU talks would yield fresh achievements to help Tehran enjoy its nuclear rights.

Referring to the latest decision of the UN nuclear watchdog made during its Thursday meeting on postponing Iran's referral to the UN Security Council and giving time for new Russian diplomacy, 'Iran News' said it indicated that Europe and the US "climbed down from their verbal threat."
They did so because their action would have had no legal standing, it stressed.

Talks on a Russian proposal to allow Iran to conduct uranium enrichment - but in Russia and not in Iran in order to keep Tehran from obtaining nuclear technology crucial in making nuclear weapons - will now take center stage.

However, Iran says it has not yet been formally presented with the Russian offer, the paper continued.

On the latest report of the IAEA Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, who said atomic inspectors had not found any military link in the Isfahan's Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF), the article wrote ElBaradei "has called on Iran and the so-called EU3 to return to the negotiating table to ally international concerns that Tehran is seeking to develop nuclear arms.

"They must have understood that Iran's nuclear ambitions were totally peaceful while regional and international conditions did not let them ratchet up the pressure on Tehran," argued the paper.

It further urged officials in Tehran to "not hesitate to take a maximum advantage of this opportunity to serve its national interests.

"The call for the resumption of nuclear talks is a positive development, no matter what proposal would be debated. Iran and the Europeans can follow up their own objectives alike," stressed the article.

Iran has demonstrated its good faith to the international community by respecting the NPT, the paper noted criticizing the Europeans for not having "made good on their pledges for transfer of nuclear technology to Iran who froze its nuclear enrichment suffering financial losses."
The article hoped in conclusion that the new round of Iran-EU talks would gain new achievements in this regard.

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