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If it satisfies, for present purposes, the honourable Member to say that we have changed our line, I will say that we have changed our line – but we have not changed our line. The honourable Member cannot have been concentrating when I have said, on a number of occasions, that at meeting after meeting with our Iranian interlocutors we have stressed the importance, for example, of their signing the additional protocol. I have been to Teheran twice to make that point. In the last few weeks I have spoken twice to Foreign Minister Kharrazi. I spoke to him in the middle of August and it is a wonderful coincidence that this question is being asked this evening as I spoke to him this morning on exactly the same point.
My colleague Dr Solana, the High Representative, has been in Teheran this week making the point we have been making month after month: we wish to see Iran sign the additional protocol as a necessary, but not perhaps sufficient, condition for convincing the rest of the world that its civil nuclear programme and ambitions are what they are said to be. I have no doubt at all that we should press Iran on this issue. Iran wants to have a better relationship with us and the rest of the world. What the Iranians have to recognise is that it is not just the United States that is concerned about this issue: we are also passionately concerned about it. I hope that satisfies the honourable Member and that we now find ourselves supping from the same bowl."@en1
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