Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh has called on the West to seize the historic opportunity of the upcoming talks with Tehran and turn to the negotiating table.According to Iranian PressTv channel, referring to comprehensive talks which will be held between Iran and the P5+1 — Russia, China, France, Britain and the US plus Germany — in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 21, he told that West should use the chance at the earliest as time is moving against the negotiating side.He reiterated that Iran will continue to produce nuclear fuel saying that Iran has an ‘inalienable’ right to use nuclear energy and uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes under the IAEA surveillance.Soltanieh also pointed out that nuclear weapons have no room in Iran's doctrine and expressed the Islamic Republic's opposition to weapons of mass destruction in all their varieties.
News On AIR | January 12, 2011 8:37 PM
Iran’s IAEA ambassador urges West to seize chance of talks