Iran ready for talks if US changes attitude

TEHRAN, Nov 14 (Reuters) Iran is ready to talk to the United States on condition that Washington changes its attitude, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today.

''We have said from the beginning that we will talk with the American government, but under conditions. The conditions concern the attitude of the American government. If they correct their behaviour, we will talk to them like others,'' Ahmadinejad told a news conference broadcast live on state television. The results of the US midterm elections have put pressure on the US government, both from US Democrats and its allies abroad, to talk to Iran about reducing the violence in Iraq.

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