Not to let North Korea hog the nuclear spotlight, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presided over the opening of a nuclear fuel facility on Thursday. With Vulcan flair, he declared, “The Iranian nation has from the beginning been after logic and negotiations, but negotiations based on justice and complete respect for rights and regulations.”

BBC:

The move came as Tehran considered an offer by six world powers, including the United States, to take part in fresh talks on the crisis.

“The Iranian nation has from the beginning been after logic and negotiations, but negotiations based on justice and complete respect for rights and regulations,” Mr Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on Thursday.

“One-sided negotiations, conditional negotiations, negotiations in an atmosphere of threat are not something that any free person would accept,” he said.

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