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Iran ready for talks with West if based on "respect"

Thu Apr 9, 2009 11:14am EDT

TEHRAN, April 9 (Reuters) - Iran would be ready for talks with the West if they are based on respect and justice, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, a day after world powers said they would invite Tehran to nuclear talks.

"The Iranian nation has from the beginning been after logic and negotiations, but negotiations based on justice and complete respect for rights and regulations," Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech.

"One-sided negotiations, conditional negotiations, negotiations in an atmosphere of threat are not something that any free person would accept," he said. "The Iranian nation has always been ready for negotiations."

(Reporting by Parisa Hafezi and Zahra Hosseinian, writing by Fredrik Dahl)


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