Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi denied rumors circulated by various foreign media that Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi had entered into negotiations with an American senator on the sidelines of the ongoing World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Speaking to the official IRNA news agency Saturday night, Asefi said that the foreign minister had only expressed his opinion in response to the remarks of one of the speakers of the World Economic Forum which was attended by global political and economc leaders.

He said that the American senator likewise expressed certain opinions of his own during their conversation.

Asefi stressed that no such negotiations took place during the Forum`s meetings but that various speakers did air many of their viewpoints on various issues.

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