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11/3/2009 11:20 AM
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Tehran would not cooperate with any international dialogue where the opinion of Washington becomes decisive.
The obvious anti-U.S. Stance was made clear by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Tuesday while addressing university students on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy.
In 1979, a group of Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held 52 U.S. diplomats hostage for 444 days, leading to the United States severing diplomatic relations with Iran.
Iranian government has organized an anti-U.S. rally for Wednesday in front of a building in Tehran, where the U.S. embassy had functioned, to mark the anniversary of the incident.
"A dialogue like this is like a sheep and wolf relation, which the late Imam (Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini) has said that we 'do not want," Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted Khamenei as saying.
"The U.S. approach toward Iran has been in contradiction with the slogan of bringing change to its policy," Khamenei told the students. "On the one hand, Americans talk of negotiations, and on the other hand, they continue to threaten," he added.
It comes a day after Iran's envoy to the international nuclear watchdog, Ali Asghar Soltanieh said the Islamic country is ready to take part in the next round of talks with world powers over the fuel provision for a Tehran research reactor.
As part of the international community's efforts to ensure transparency to Iran's claims that it is enriching nuclear-potent uranium for peaceful purposes, IAEA last month handed a draft proposal advising Iran how to move forward on its uranium enrichment program.
by RTT Staff Writer
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