Ahmadinejad ready for nuclear talks

Published time: January 26, 2012 11:12
Edited time: January 26, 2012 16:21
Tehran : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran is ready for talks with western powers over its nuclear program.

The leader of the Islamic republic also said the sanctions imposed by the EU against Iran’s oil industry will not hurt it. Ahmadinejad made the remarks in Kerman, southeastern Iran on Thursday.

Iran is under increasing pressure from the west over its controversial nuclear program. Foreigners accuse Tehran of secretly building a nuclear weapon, an allegation which Iran stoutly denies.

In the latest round of the dispute, the US and EU have issued an embargo on Iranian oil, as well as sanctions against the country’s central bank.

The move, meant to cripple the budget of one of world’s leading crude exporters, may be supported by some major buyers including Japan and South Korea. China and India, both of which account for large chunks of Iran’s oil trade, however, have refused to join in.

Iran maintains that it won’t yield to pressure, threatening to cripple oil tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf by blockading the Strait of Hormuz. In the latest response to sanctions, Tehran is eyeing suspending supply of oil to Europe under standing contracts, which would result in a fuel shortage in EU countries.

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Kermit Frazier 29.01.2012 03:14

Intelligent move. Iran is now working from a position of strength following the generous donation of bleeding-edge Military Technology, (just in time for Xmas, too!) By inviting Un Inspectors to their Nuke Plants, it can also pursue a verification of the CIA Drone captured last fall.

After denying the possibility that the Iranians had/could have had/actually did capture the spyplane by using plain old doggedness. Add to that, the tendency of the CIA/Bureaucrats to scedule these 'invisible' overflights on a predictable basis, one visual sighting naturally led to a subsequent capture and a goldmine of tech secrets.

I'll bet Ahmadinejad is still hugging himself in glee at the United States Heart-Rending Plea: "Please give us back our drone! The election depends upon it!"

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bert 27.01.2012 15:08

Dimitri (unregistered) wrote in #5
First, Nato bombed Serbia to smithereens.  Then, Nato bombed Afghanistan to smithereens, and then Nato bombed Libya to smithereens.  Thousands and thousands of people died horrible deaths as a result of these inhuman, unhumanitarian, brutal Nato attacks.  What is this, Nazi Nato?  Like Brussels, like Adolf Hitler's Berlin.  Like Helmut Kohl's Berlin too.  Like Angela Merkel's Berlin too.  Everybody knows by now, it's Nazi Nato.

So if I understand you correct every nation which have bombed another nation is a nazi?

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Eddie 27.01.2012 05:15

@ nobliss   How much does the apartheid mossad pay nowadays to spread rumors like yours??   Mus t be enough that you can, this easily, disregard the atrocities the apartheid zionist state is committing against thousands of palastinian civilians......befor e criticizing Iran I suggest you clean up your own house first and stop suppressing women and children in the Gaza strip.

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