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Iran's new gov't to study negotiations with US

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-30 21:04

TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's new government has opted for a study of relations with the United States, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.

"Studying negotiations (with the United States), its consequences, advantages and disadvantages...are on the agenda of the government's foreign policy," an informed source told Fars.

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Iran's government seeks to persuade the new US administration to avoid bragging and be practically committed to its "change slogan" in its relations with foreign countries, the source said.

The Islamic Republic is continually monitoring the positions and remarks by the American officials, he added.

Washington has already announced that it will fully participate in talks with Iran about its nuclear program.

The move, part of US President Barack Obama's plan to deal directly with Tehran on key issues, marked a reversal of the policy that had been adopted by the former Bush administration.

The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Iran on April 7, 1980 after a group of Iranian students seized the US embassy in Tehran and captured some 60 US diplomats in 1979, with 52 of them being in captivity for 444 days in the hostage crisis.