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Iran's Khazayee Tells ICP Exclusion on Syria is "Power's Problem," Talks Nuclear

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, June 27 -- After Kofi Annan excluded Iran from his June 30 meeting in Geneva, Security Council sources exclusively told Inner City Press that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had threatened not to attend if Iran did.

  Inner City Press wrote that story, then managed to ask Iran's Ambassador to the UN Mohammad Khazayee to respond to it.

   Khazayee told Inner City Press, "a very important fact that cannot be ignored by anybody is the influence and constructive role that the Islamic Republic of Iran has in the region... if some powers do not want to benefit from this influence and constructive role, that's their problem. And this is another indication of the actually neglecting the realities on the ground."

  He added that the "solution for Syrian crisis is the cooperation among everybody, especially the major players in the region."

  The spokesman for Ban Ki-moon, who had been on record that Iran should participate, said at the June 27 noon briefing that Kofi Annan would, after the June 30 meeting, give a briefing to Iran. Inner City Press asked him if Saudi Arabia, also not invited, would get a similar briefing.

Later on June 27 the following came in:

From: UN Spokesperson - Do Not Reply [at] un.org
Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Subject: Your question on Saudi Arabia
To: Matthew Russell Lee [at] innercitypress.com

The Spokesperson understands that the Joint Special Envoy will also brief Saudi Arabia after the Action Group meeting and ensure their continued engagement.

  So the exclusions are, it seems, simply in order to get Hillary Clinton to the meeting, as one Council member put it, so that no TV footage of her with Iran about Syria comes out in this election season.

  Inner City Press also asked Iran's Ambassador about the nuclear talks, how he would characterize their status and relations with the P5+1 (or E3+3) and Iran.

Khazayee: I am planning to have a briefing to all of you in the next few days about the negotiations in Moscow and about what happened over there and the details of the proposals that was made and put forward by the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as 5+1, but in general I have to say that the negotiations, the Iranian side are serious and they have genuine proposals to overcome these misunderstandings and suspicions that exist, and there are some points that exist in our proposal as well as the 5+1 proposal, which is the question of 20% enrichment of uranium and also dealing with the stockpile, the TRR's provision of needed enriched uranium for TRR. So on these issues, I think that both sides can come to an agreement if they discuss fairly and they also take into account the Iranian views and their needs and considerations and also the issue of their rightful enrichment and other things and I don't want to discuss it right now. So I characterize the negotiations in Moscow as a serious one and the good result of it is that finally both sides decided to get into details and technical issues, because without that of course you cannot solve all these technicalities and details.

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