Iran Rejects rumor about Presence of Leader's Top Aide Velayati in N. Talks. (Fars).
Iranian officials rejected Arab media claims that Supreme Leader's senior advisor Ali Akbar Velayati is due to participate in the nuclear talks between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) in Masqat, Oman, on Tuesday.
"The report is not true," an informed source close to the seven nation talks said on Sunday.
"Basically, the presence of any official other than what has been announced is not on agenda during these negotiations," the official added.
The official's remarks came after al-Monitor news website quoted sources as claiming that an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may join talks in Oman in the coming days.
"Velayati, longtime foreign policy adviser to Khamenei and a former Iranian foreign minister, may join the talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union negotiator Catherine Ashton, in a signal that the Supreme Leader may be preparing to sign off on a deal," the sources claimed.
Iran and the six major world powers have already held 8 rounds of nuclear negotiations after inking an interim agreement in Geneva on November 24, 2013, and have less than three weeks time to strike a final deal before the November 24 deadline. Hmmm.....Seems Huffington post got it wrong.
good day 4 diplomacy: #NorthKorea releases 2 americans; SLN advisor Velayati may join #IranTalks; Lavrov open 2 US role in #Ukraine talks
— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) November 8, 2014
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