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Wed, 12/01/2010 - 12:42
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Tehran ready for talks on nuclear cooperation: Ahmadinejad

SARI, Dec. 1 (MNA) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Iran is ready to hold talks with the world’s major powers about “nuclear cooperation.”

“We can talk together on an equal footing and based on justice and law about the international issues, the problems facing the humanity and nuclear cooperation. We can reach agreement and work together,” Ahmadinejad told a gathering of well-wishers in the northern province of Mazandaran.

But the talks will not be fruitful unless the world powers change their hegemonistic attitudes toward Iran, the president reiterated.

Ahmadinejad again emphasized that the Islamic Republic will not make “one iota” of concessions about its nuclear rights.

Iran and the 5+1 group (five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) will resume talks next week after about one-year hiatus.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ahmadinejad pointed to the subsidy reform plan and said that the enemies are trying to thwart the plan, because they know that if the plan is implemented, many economic issues facing the country will be rooted out.

“Devils are opposed to the administration of justice. They know that if the subsidy reform is implemented, the poverty is eradicated and the gap between the rich and poor will be reduced…,” he explained.

The government plans to remove subsidies on fuel, electricity, and certain goods over the course of five years. The plan was to go into force at the latest since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar month of Azar which started on November 22, but the government has not yet started the so-called overhaul of the economy. The procrastination has caused confusion among people and provoked criticism from experts and parliamentarians.


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