Iran denies linking Iraq role to Western sanctions
Iran on Thursday denied linking any future cooperation with the international community against jihadists in Iraq to the lifting of crippling Western sanctions.
Earlier, the official IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as suggesting that Tehran could help the international community if it lifted the sanctions.
"If we agree to do something in Iraq, the other side of the negotiations should do something in return," IRNA had quoted Zarif as saying.
Zarif, an English-language statement said, was talking about the Arak research reactor -- a source of concern for the international community because by-product waste from there could provide an alternative route to an atomic bomb.
Iraq and Arak can sound the same in Farsi.
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