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Iran says nuclear talks a step forward
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-07-20 21:25 "This was an opportunity for America to know the views of the Islamic Republic," Mottaki said. Mottaki said talks on the nuclear issue would continue but that no time or place had yet been decided. Officials in Geneva, however, made clear that any follow-up contacts would be at a lower level than Saturday's talks. The United Nations has imposed three sets of sanctions on Iran in a stand-off that goes back to the revelation in 2002 by an exiled opposition group of the existence of a uranium enrichment facility and heavy water plant in the country. Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil producer, rejects suspicions that it wants an atomic bomb and says its nuclear program is intended to generate electricity. |
