Iran says open for talks on nuclear and other issues

Source: Reuters

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is ready for negotiations on nuclear and other issues provided such talks do not violate the country's rights, the president said on Wednesday.

But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, showing uncharacteristic restraint, told a rally he would not address Iran's nuclear row with the West in detail and would save his comments for another occasion.

The president, who usually launches into defiant remarks over Iran's nuclear plans at such gatherings, did not explain his reticence but it came the day world powers met to discuss the atomic issue in China, a country Iran has been courting.

The meeting of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France -- plus Germany and an EU representative is being hosted by Beijing for the first time.

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who would have thunk it??

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