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Europe, Iran asks Japan to help smooth relations with U.S.
[Europe News]: TOKYO, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi has asked
Japan to help ease tensions between Tehran and Washington over Iran's
plans to make nuclear fuel that could be used for atomic weapons, a
Japanese official said on Wednesday.
U.S. President George W. Bush, who has refused to rule out military
action, last week called Iran the world's primary state sponsor of
terror and accused it of trying to build nuclear arms.
Iran has said its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.
"Kharrazi said ... Japan probably has abundant (positive) information
about Iran and asked that it convey such information to the United
States," a Foreign Ministry official told reporters after the Iranian
minister met Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
Iran is the third-largest energy supplier for Japan, which relies on the
Middle East for almost all of its oil.
Kharrazi reiterated that Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons and that
its nuclear programme would be used for peaceful aims such as generating
electricity, the official said.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that world
leaders must reject Iranian attempts to dictate its own terms for
fulfilling a pledge not to develop atomic weapons.
"We should not let the Iranians continue to create new conditions that
have to be fulfilled somehow before they are prepared to live up to
their international obligations," she said in Paris after talks with
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier.
"Everybody knows what the Iranians need to do, they just need to do it,"
Rice said.
Iran began fresh talks with European officials in Geneva on Tuesday over
Western demands that it abandon plans to make nuclear fuel.
Kharrazi said he hoped the talks with France, Britain and Germany -- the
three European Union states taking the lead in the search for a
diplomatic solution to the issue -- would produce positive results, the
Japanese official said.
Iran wants to reach an agreement and continue its nuclear programme
under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
the official quoted Kharrazi as saying.
Iran says it is frustrated that no clear economic inducements have yet
emerged.
Over the objections of U.S. officials, Japanese energy firm Inpex Corp.
last year sealed a $2 billion deal to develop the southern half of
Iran's Azadegan oil field, one of the world's biggest untapped oil
fields.
Kharrazi -- who was due to meet Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka
Machimura later on Wednesday -- also conveyed a message from President
Mohammad Khatami inviting Koizumi to visit Iran.
Koizumi said he hoped the conditions for such a visit would come
together, the official said.
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