Ahmadinejad backs Russian stance on nuclear dispute after EU oil ban

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he supports his Russian counterpart’s efforts to resolve the international nuclear...

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Russian premier Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday that he backs Moscow’s efforts to resolve the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear drive diplomatically, the Kremlin said.

“Dmitry Medvedev noted with satisfaction the Iranian president’s positive assessment of the Russian initiative − a plan of gradually restoring faith in the Iranian nuclear program. The two sides agreed to continue consolations on this question,” the Medvedev administration said in a statement.

The two leaders spoke after European diplomats said Wednesday that the European Union had reached preliminary agreement on an EU-wide ban on oil from the Islamic republic in a move backed by the United States.

European Union governments reached a preliminary agreement to ban imports of Iranian crude to the EU but have yet to decide when such an embargo would be put in place, EU diplomats said on Wednesday.

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