Iran offers fresh hope of nuclear programme deal - Times Online
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In a remarkably conciliatory new tone from Tehran, influential hardliners
welcomed a recent package of incentives offered by six major world powers.
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Mr Velayati, referring to the US, said: “Those who are agitating against our
interests want that we reject the [international] offer. As a consequence,
it’s in our interests to accept it.”
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ohn Bolton, the US’s former
UN ambassador, has suggested that Israel could attack Iran between the US
elections on November 4 and January.
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President Bush said diplomacy was his first option to address the stand-off
but repeated that “all options” - code for military action was still on the
table.
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“I believe... Iran will not attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz and we will
not allow them to close the Strait of Hormuz. I can’t say it any more
clearly than that,” Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, the commander of the US
Navy’s Fifth Fleet, said today.
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