Nuclear Chief Says Iran Ready to Hold Talks With European States

Text of report by Iranian TV news channel on 17 February

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani has says: Its wise that no country is dependent on others for nuclear fuel supplies.

However, the top Iranian nuclear negotiator said Iran would be ready to meet its nuclear fuel demands from an international system established to provide all countries with nuclear fuel, if such system was established.

He added Iran was ready to allow the participation of other countries in its peaceful nuclear programme. The senior Iranian official stressed that Iran was also ready to resume nuclear talks with European states. He added that Iran suspended all nuclear activities as a measure aimed at confidence-building during the past three years of negotiation with European countries, but they used the language of threat to settle the dispute.