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| Oministration renews commitment to engage with Iran | |
| 2009-05-22 | |
"We are still committed to a diplomatic resolution with Iran. We are still willing to try and go down the route of engagement, but we also will not allow Iran to use talks as an excuse to continue pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability", said State Department spokesperson Ian Kelly. Iran appears to have successfully test-fired a medium-range missile called Sejil-2 with a range of at least 2,000 kilometers yesterday in a show of force announced by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the northern city of Semnan, near the launch site. "We continue to believe that the best approach to this is multilateral engagement. That we have not given up on it. But our bottom line remains that we have to get to a point where Iran agrees to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons", noted Kelly. "We think the best way to do that is through multilateral leverage", concluded Kelly. | |
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