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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad puts negotiations on hold until late August, saying move is ‘to teach west a lesson’
Iran is to postpone nuclear talks with the west as a “punishment” for the imposition of new UN sanctions that are designed to it stop enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today.
Negotiations would be put off until after Ramadan in late August, he said, though no talks have in fact been scheduled. “It’s a punishment to teach them a lesson to know how to have a dialogue with nations,” he told reporters in Tehran. Ahmadinejad also repeated that Iran would retaliate if attempts were made to inspect its ships, as sanctions permit.
Earlier, the Iranian leader had…

News Source: World news: Iran | guardian.co.uk
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