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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is willing to resume nuclear talks, but not until August, so as to punish the West. His comments were included in a flurry of anti-Western rhetoric to mark the anniversary of a 1981 explosion that killed key figures and dozens of supporters of Iran's revolution. Ahmadinejad says Iran is postponing nuclear talks because the West issued a Security Council resolution against it, supposedly to give them the upper hand in negotiations. He says Iran considers it immoral, and for this reason Tehran is delaying negotiations until late August, to punish the West so they learn how to speak properly with other nations. The Iranian president says he still considers Russia and China to be friendly states. He claims they supported the recent, new sanctions resolution against his country because of the importance of their ties with the United States.
