Iran Ready for Nuclear Talks on Its Terms

Iranian officials say they’re prepared to resume talks on its nuclear program but are refusing U.N. conditions of freezing uranium enrichment first.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the announcement in Tehran and was echoed by Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, in Germany where he was attending the Munich Conference on Security Policy.

Washington Post correspondents said Larijani was much less defiant as the possibility of broader international sanctions looms. Larijani said Iran had no intention of aggression against any country and that Iran posed no threat to Israel in particular. In the past, Ahmadinejad said Israel should be wiped off the map.

However, Ahmadinejad said there was no negotiating on stopping uranium enrichment.

We are prepared for dialogue but won’t suspend our activities, he said.

There are international concerns Iran is preparing to build nuclear weapons, which it denies.