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APTEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities have arrested the country's former nuclear negotiator — an ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's predecessor and rival — on an unspecified security charge.
The hard-line president, meanwhile, insisted his country will not retreat "even an iota" on its nuclear program.
The Iranian state-run news agency, citing an "unofficial informed source," said Hossein Mousavian was arrested Monday in the capital, Tehran.
Mousavian was a member of the Iranian nuclear negotiating team until 2005 and before that served as Iran's ambassador to Germany. He was a close ally of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Ahmadinejad, who defeated Rafsanjani in the last presidential elections, replaced the nuclear negotiating team, including Mousavian, when he assumed power two years ago.
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