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Washington (AFP) Nov 10, 2010 US sanctions against Iran over the Islamic republic's suspect nuclear program are biting, Senior Democratic Senator John Kerry said Wednesday in the wake of talks in Syria, a key Tehran ally. "They clearly are having some impact, and I think that folks there are perhaps a little surprised at the amount of impact," said Kerry, who met this week in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "They don't think it's the way to solve the problem," and "they believe that you gotta go the other way," through negotiations, said the lawmaker, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But Kerry said he had warned Damascus that was "very difficult" because of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's past approach to negotiations and offers from major world powers to freeze his country's atomic drive. Tehran denies the West's charges that it masks a covert quest for nuclear weapons.
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![]() ![]() Tehran (AFP) Nov 10, 2010 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday stressed that Iran would not negotiate on its basic rights and urged the West to climb down from its "ivory towers" if it wants to hold nuclear talks. "We have said several times that the Iranians will not negotiate with anyone over their basic rights," the hardline leader said in a speech in the northern city of Qazvin broadcast live on state telev ... read more |
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