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Khamenei not opposed to nuclear extension

In a speech, Iran's supreme leader has said that he supports the extension on the nuclear talks but slammed the countries involved in the negotiations.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (LtoR) pose for photographers before a meeting in Vienna November 24, 2014. Iran, the United States and other world powers are all but certain to miss Monday's deadline for negotiations to resolve a 12-year stand-off over Tehran's atomic ambitions, forcing them to seek an extension, sources say. The talks in Vienna could lead to a transformation of
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on Iran’s nuclear program, addressed in detail the latest extension on the talks between Iran and five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1), during which Iran has maintained a reduced nuclear program in exchange for the unblocking of frozen assets.

During a speech to Basij Organization officials today, Nov. 27, Ayatollah Khamenei said, “I am not opposed to the extension of the negotiations for the same reasons I am not opposed to the principle of negotiations.”

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