Iran says US must accept nuclear programme
By Roula Khalaf and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran
Published: February 4 2009 18:48 Last updated: February 4 2009 18:48
A senior adviser to Iran’s president says dialogue with the US will succeed only if the Obama administration accepts Tehran’s right to have a nuclear programme.
Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi, right-hand man to Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the fundamentalist president, said, in an interview with the Financial Times, Tehran was studying its options, just as the new US administration was reviewing its Iran policy.
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