Saturday, March 18, 2006

Iraq Talks to be Finalised

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that details of negotiations between Iran and the US on Iraq, including composition of the negotiating sides, would be finalized and publicized in the near future, IRNA reported.

Mottaki made the remark while talking to reporters at the end of a conference of Iranian diplomatic missions abroad.

Leader of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), Abdel Aziz Hakim, addressing a gathering of his supporters broadcast on a Shia television channel on Wednesday, called for a dialogue between Iran and America.

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Moves toward Iran's nuclear draft

The Security Council is inching toward agreeing on a revised Franco-British draft urging Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, diplomats said on Friday as China suggested that Tehran be given up to six weeks to do so.

The 15-member council met for over one hour on Friday to review the revised text, which incorporated comments made by members after a series of informal sessions earlier this week. Members agreed to meet again on Tuesday after getting reactions from their capitals.

"The response we got from our colleagues today suggests that we are pretty close to where they wanted us to be," British UN envoy Emyr Jones Parry said.

"Our wish remains that the council should act expeditiously on this text and send the clearest possible signal [to Tehran] ... to reinforce the activities of the [International Atomic Energy Agency] Agency," he added.

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Journalist Freed

Iran's most prominent political prisoner, dissident Akbar Ganji, was released late on Friday night after six years in prison. Visibly thinner and sporting a bushy beard, Mr Ganji smiled and greeted family and friends on Saturday but refused to make any comments.

⌠He was released at the end of his term, Mr Ganji's lawyer Yusef Molai said.

⌠To my surprise, prison officials brought him home at 10 last night. I did not expect it as the papers said he would not be released before March 30. I am extremely happy, his wife Massoumeh Shafie said.

⌠I have asked him not to talk because I am very worried and do not want the same thing to happen again, she added.

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