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March 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Catherine Ashton sent a letter to Secretary of Iran Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, on Tuesday, saying the two sides only had to set a date and a venue for the talks.
“On behalf of China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States of America (the group’s member states), I have offered to resume talks with Iran on the nuclear issue,” she said in a televised statement.
“Our overall goal remains a comprehensive negotiated, long-term solution, which restores international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, while respecting Iran’s right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy, consistent with the NPT (nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty),” Ashton said in the letter.
The letter proposed an initial round of talks to focus on building confidence by developing concrete steps for the future, saying, “In practical terms…our deputies could get together in the near future in order to prepare for the first round of our resumed talks.”
Iran has agreed to hold comprehensive talks with the P5+1 group — Russia, China, France, Britain, the US, and Germany — saying it will allow the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to visit a military site southeast of Tehran only based on modality.
The IAEA says it wants to make sure Iran has not used the site for, what it calls, highly-explosive tests.
Tehran allowed the agency to visit the site twice in 2005. Following those visits, the IAEA confirmed Iran’s non-diversion and said the case had been closed.
Iran and P5+1 held two rounds of talks, one in Geneva, Switzerland in December 2010 and another in Istanbul, Turkey in January 2011.
While Tehran says it is ready to continue the talks based on common grounds, it has stressed that it will not give up any of its rights.
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program and have used this pretext to impose international and unilateral sanctions on the Islamic Republic as well as to call for a military strike against the country.
Iran has repeatedly refuted the Western allegations, arguing that, as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it is entitled to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The agency has conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, but has never found any evidence of diversion in the country’s civilian nuclear energy program.
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