Iranian president: US should change policies

Published September 24th, 2006 - 02:08 GMT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has signaled his government's readiness to put "everything" on the negotiating table, if those in the American administration who talk about regime change in Iran abandon their schemes. "If they change their behavior, it is possible to talk about everything," the Iranian leader told The Washington Post. "It's the attitude and the approach of some American politicians that ruin things."

 

Asked if Iran was willing to take any steps to suspend uranium enrichment, Ahmadinejad responded to the Post: "We think that the American politicians should change their attitudes. If they think that by threatening Iran they'll have results, they are wrong."

 

The Iranian leader was asked four times if he would like to see Israel wiped off the face of the Earth but ducked a direct answer each time. Instead, he suggested that the Palestinian people should be allowed to "decide their fate in a free and fair referendum, and the result, whatever it is, should be accepted."

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