Turkish President Abdullah Gul: Dialogue between Iran and the West must resume; Iran Foreign Minister: Iran ready to cooperate with the IAEA if it readjusts its attitude toward Tehran; Ahmadinejad media advisor released on the same day
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    • According to reports, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said that Iran is ready to increase cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if it readjusts its attitude toward Tehran. Salehi, also dismissed recent report as “ineffective” that IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano released on November 8, in which he said that Iran appears to have worked on designing an atomic bomb. He said according to the regulations, the IAEA is not allowed “to release documents against a country,” and such a thing is unprecedented in the history of the agency. Salehi also added that “In future, we will see that the agency will modify its approach toward Iran, and it will have no other option. And we are ready to cooperate with the agency more than before on condition that the agency readjusts its attitude and acts according to the statute and safeguards agreement. In this case, we are ready to continue our cooperation as before or even increase our cooperation.”1

    Meanwhile, Turkish President Abdullah Gul has urged for dialogue between Iran and world powers that stalled last January. Gul in an interview stated, "for the sake of peace it is very important that the dialogue between Iran and the West progresses in a more frank and transparent way. 2

    In other developments, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s media adviser and the caretaker manger of the daily Iran Ali Akbar Javanfekr, who had been arrested recently for disrespecting Islamic and moral principles, was released on the same day after consultations between administration officials and the Judiciary. However, the execution of Javanfekr’s arrest warrant has temporarily been put on hold. Earlier, Khabar Online had reported that a Tehran court has sentenced Javanfekr to one year in prison and banned him from engaging in media activities for three years for publishing articles and pictures in the August 13 special edition of the newspaper. Javanfekr is also the manager of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).3

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