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Iran's halt was a goodwill gesture. It requires Washington responding in kind.
"In order to build trust, the Islamic regime has set aside the 20 percent enrichment process. It is expected that the 5+1 will remove the sanctions. If such action does not take place, Iran will continue with its process of reaching peaceful nuclear energy," said Asfari.
Iran's Fars News Agency denied the report. Enrichment continues, it said. Asfari reworded his original statement from Tehran halted enrichment to suspending it will occur to show good will.
Obama likely wanted something concluded pre-election. It's not clear if he got it. US media reports didn't say so. An unnamed source claimed Washington passed on a message intended for Ayatollah Khamenei.
Allegedly it requested Tehran announce a deal pre-election. Nothing official was forthcoming. Iranian officials dismissed reports. General Mohammad Reza Naghdi denounced it, saying:
"It is delusional to think that any contacts with America will reduce threats because America itself is the threat."According to the Revolutionary Guards' Javan Online publication, Naghdi added:
"America must close all its military bases in fifty countries of the world and remove all its naval assets from the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea, taking them to its own shores."
"America must also dismantle the CIA"and must officially announce that it will not support the (Israeli) Zionist regime."
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