Iran's letter to Solana circulated as UN Security Council document

New York, Oct 11, IRNA Iran's letter to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and foreign
ministers of Group 5+1 has been circulated as the UN Security
Council's document.

Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili forwarded
a letter to Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign
and Security Policy/ Secretary-General of the Council of the European
Union and Representative of the six countries on Tuesday, complaining
that the Group is looking at nuclear talks with Iran as merely a
tactical tool.

"In view of the Geneva Talks and the emphasis of both sides on
presenting a clear response to each other, the Islamic Republic of
Iran in its letter of 5 August 2008 expressed its readiness to offer
transparent response vis-a-vis reciting clear replies to its
questions," Jalili said in his letter to Solana.

It is interesting for the international community to see that in the
course of talks when a rational question is raised, the other party to
the talks resorts to levers of pressure instead of offering answers to
questions and trying to remove ambiguities, Jalili said, adding that
in the judgment of the world community, this unreasonable behavior is
an indication of the lack of a clear response to the principled
questions of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The absence of civilized tradition of "dialogue" among certain powers
that prefer to use levers of pressure instead of reasoning is not a
matter that is unknown to the world community, he said.