 Iran said on Saturday it has started to study the West’s offer to resolve the nuclear crisis and could make counter-proposals through shuttle diplomacy, as Iraq mounted a mediation effort. “We have opened the package, and we are studying it, and afterwards we will officially reply to the Europeans,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying following talks with Palestinian counterpart Mahmud al-Zahar. “We hope ... a shuttle diplomacy will be started for the Islamic republic’s proposals in the form of amendments or counter-proposals to be studied seriously by the Europeans,” he added. “We are in favour of discussions which are fair, unbiased and without preconditions, that will result in an understanding satisfactory for all sides,” he said. |