Ahamdinejad: Iran ready to shake hands ‘that are honestly extended to us’

September 23rd, 2009 Iran's president rails against capitalismUNITED NATIONS — Under increasing attack over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that Tehran was ready to meet conciliation with conciliation.

September 13th, 2009 TEHRAN - Turkey has declared readiness to host nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers, a media report said Sunday. The Press TV network quoted Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as saying that his country was ready to host talks between Iran and the five permanent member states of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany.

September 9th, 2009 France, Britain, Germany: Iran must engageVIENNA — Britain, France and Germany are urging Iran to engage in "meaningful negotiations" aimed at achieving a comprehensive diplomatic solution to the international standoff over its nuclear program. Iran insists the program is peaceful and aimed at generating electricity.

September 7th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran is ready to hold talks with world powers over global issues, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, adding "from our point of view, Iran's nuclear issue is over". Ahmadinejad said: "We are prepared to sit down to hold talks." He, however, said Iran will neither halt uranium enrichment nor negotiate over its nuclear rights.

September 7th, 2009 TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is ready to hold talks with the world powers over global challenges including its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad said Monday Iran will initially present its package of proposals to the five permanent members of the U.N.

June 3rd, 2009 FM says Israel does not intend to bomb IranMOSCOW — Israel's foreign minister says his country does not intend to bomb Iran. Avigdor Lieberman is also telling reporters that other countries in the region and around the world should be concerned about Iran's nuclear program.

May 16th, 2009 BERLIN - Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has warned that any Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be a great mistake. 'It would be utterly mad to attack Iran.

March 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Expressing its fears that Iran's nuclear program is a cover to build atomic weapons, the Obama administration has extended sanctions imposed on that country for one more year. Tehran claims that it is enriching uranium to produce nuclear energy for civilian purposes.

March 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama Thursday extended US sanctions for at least another year, saying the Iranian government's policies continue to pose an 'extraordinary threat' to the US. The US enacted tight sanctions on Iran following the 1979 hostage crisis and they have remained in place since.

March 12th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran Thursday said it has accepted the US invitation to a conference on Afghanistan and was ready for talks to help resolve the crisis in the war-torn country, Press TV reported. 'Afghanistan and Iran share a long border, so Afghan security and development is naturally an important priority of ours,' Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said Wednesday.

February 24th, 2009 ANKARA - Iran has asked Turkey to play a role in bringing Tehran and Washington together to discuss mutual concerns, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday night. 'We have said this before: we are ready.

February 9th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran is ready to talk in 'fair atmosphere' with the US. Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a speech marking the 30th anniversary of the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

February 9th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday said his country was ready for dialogue with the US provided the talks were based on mutual respect and conducted in a fair atmosphere, the official IRNA news agency reported. 'Iranian nation welcomes true changes; Iranian nation is ready for dialogue in a fair atmosphere and mutual respect,' he said at a rally organised in Tehran's Azadi (liberty) Square to mark the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran.

January 26th, 2009 TEHRAN - Tehran Tuesday issued a reserved response to remarks by US President Barack Obama that his administration would be willing to engage in diplomacy with Iran on its controversial nuclear programme. Government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said Iran would rather wait for 'practical changes' by the new US government and expected a change in US policies towards Iran including a moving away from 'imperialistic' policies.

January 25th, 2009 BRUSSELS - The European Union (EU) is ready to help the US close the infamous Guantanamo detention centre by taking in some of its inmates, but it is up to individual member states to decide how many they welcome, EU foreign ministers said Monday. 'I think we need to look at this from a humanitarian perspective, a human rights perspective.