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No precoditions in talks with EU
Shiraz, Fars prov, Dec 18 - Nuclear talks between Iran and the European Union will be held with no preconditions on December 21, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday.
"The talks will be held at an expert level and if necessary will be continued," Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani told reporters in Shiraz.
"The United States has adopted a dual attitude as a result of its failures in the Middle East region. Therefore, it sometimes acts hastily which is not to its interest.
"What the US statesmen have achieved in the Middle East due to their dual attitude, including in Iraq, should be regarded as proper signals for them that the era of dual treatment has passed."
The SNSC Secretary further said, "We have not yet received Moscow's proposal on enrichment inside its soil.
"We should pay no heed to remarks made by US officials because they make a lot of double-edged and ambiguous remarks with the intention of affecting our will."
"We should rather rely on our national potential in nuclear technology," Larijani concluded.
IRI stance depends on nuclear talks
Tehran, Dec 18 - Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi here Sunday said what Iran is going to do in the future depends on its upcoming nuclear talks with Europe.
Asefi made the remark is his weekly press briefing for domestic and foreign reporters while commenting on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remark on conditional suspension of the Additional Protocol.
"We should wait to see results of talks which are very important and to some degree difficult. We should wait for future talks which are on the agenda," Asefi said.
Asked about news on the US-Zionist regime cooperation for launching a military attack on Iran, he said, "It is just a news fabrication."
He pointed to results of an opinion poll conducted by an Israeli newspaper, saying, "Over 80 percent of Israelis expressed opposition to such an attack on Iran. This stems from the Islamic Republic's power and strength."
He rejected a news report on two regional states' readiness to allow the United States and Israel to use their soil for a military attack on Iran, saying, "Such reports are spread in line with a psychological warfare launched by certain circles against Iran."
Asefi refuted Iran's purchase of 18 missiles from North Korea and added, "Our missiles are indigenous. We have capabilities to produce missile inside our territory."
In response to a question on Iran's security cooperation with the Persian Gulf littoral states, the spokesman said, "Iran has signed joint cooperation pacts with most regional countries. We have previously expressed our readiness to these countries to sign joint defense treaty.
"Concerning conclusion of an agreement to make the region free from weapons of mass destruction, we have not received any call to this effect yet. We have no objection to such an agreement and are ready to cooperate in this regard."
The spokesman stressed, "Iran has no nuclear weapons and does not intend to use such weapons. The Zionist regime, which has hundreds of nuclear warheads, is the main danger in the region."
Asked about remarks by the US and Israeli officials on Hamas presence in the ruling system (in Palestine), he said, "These states should decide whether they advocate democracy or not. "If they believe in democracy, they should respect the results of a possible election in Gaza Strip. The US will accept election results, if they serve its own interests.
"The US President's (George W. Bush) confession about eavesdropping and monitoring of E-mails proves contradiction between human rights and democracy."
In response to a question on a US court verdict calling on Iran to pay compensations to victims of an attack on the US Embassy in Beirut in 1983, he said, "Such rulings by a local court are useless and have no legal base.
"Iranian courts have so far issued verdicts valued at over three billion dollars against the US."
On measures adopted by Iran's Foreign Ministry following killing of a second Iranian national in Canada last week, he said, "We have taken up the issue with Canadian officials. We will fulfill our duties."I believe Canada is turning into an insecure country for refugees. Murder of two persons in a country claiming to be secure is not good at all."
Asked about Yadavaran' oil deal between Iran and China, Asefi said, "There are technical cases on such deals. Different issues including price and the amount of demand should be determined in talks."
Iran, EU reach final agreement on talks in Vienna: source
TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (MNA) -- Iran and the three European Union countries of Britain, Germany, and France reached a final agreement on Sunday to hold a joint session on December 21 in Vienna, according to an informed source who requested anonymity.
The Iranian nuclear delegation will probably be led by Abdol-Reza Rahmani Fazli, the deputy secretary general of the Supreme National Security Council, he told the Mehr News Agency on Sunday.
According to the source, the members of the Iranian delegation will be Javad Vaeedi, Hossein Tash, and Mohammad Nahavandian, the SNSC deputy secretary generals for international security, strategic, and economic affairs, representatives from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, including AEOI Deputy Director for International Affairs Mohammad Saeedi, and Foreign Ministry officials.
Iran has announced that the talks will focus on ways to gain the confidence of the international community on uranium enrichment activities on Iranian soil. SNSC Secretary General Ali Larijani had previously said that Iran has various plans to present at the meeting.
Both Iran and the EU3 recently stressed the need to hold short and fruitful negotiations. The talks began over two years ago but were broken off in August after the EU reneged on the Paris agreement and ignored Iran’s nuclear rights.
Iranian officials have announced that the December 21 talks are to focus on determining a specific agenda and timetable for future negotiations.
President stresses Iran's right to peaceful nuclear technology
At a gathering held on Sunday at Tehran’s Tarbiat-e Modarres University to mark the Day of Unity between Universities and Seminaries, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad emphasized Iran's right to peaceful nuclear technology and said those who possess this technology have no right to deprive other nations of such a right.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has also warned the EU not to make "exorbitant demands" during negotiations in Vienna.
"The success of the next meeting depends on the attitude of the Europeans and on the condition that they do not make exorbitant demands”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told reporters at his weekly press briefing on Sunday.
If the talks focus on the way to recognize Iran's right to conduct uranium enrichment and if the Europeans recognize Iran's rights, there will be no worries, he added.