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Iranian president said that Tehran has repeatedly made it clear that its nuclear programme is only for peaceful purposes.
The spokesman was non-committal in the kind of response of the United States.
India will make another attempt to salvage the $22-billion deal to import LNG from Iran when Petroleum Minister Murli Deora meets the Islamic country's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Thursday.
Iran says it has made progress in nuke fuel cycle programme
The meeting came two days ahead of a debate in Parliament on India's stand over the Iran nuclear programme.
Iran's decision to keep India out and welcome China to the scene is a huge strategic setback for India, observes Dr Rajaram Panda.
Brent crude was trading at $105 a barrel on Friday while US oil was at $96.75.
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'The new order cometh, sweeping out the old,' notes Ambassador B S Prakash.
The Geneva agreement is a signal, which at least Saudi Arabia and Israel are so reading, that normalisation of relations between US and Iran is not merely about the nuclear fuel cycle, says K C Singh.
To the extent the nuclear race in West Asia is slowed down by the Iran nuclear deal, the world as a whole has reason to be happy, says Virendra Kapoor.
The implications of the interim deal between Iran and the world's big powers go far beyond the nuclear programme, says Nitin Pai
It is time to throw an outer ring around India's national security by proactively engaging in areas immediately outside our neighbourhood. Such a ring will not only insulate India from emerging threats, but also create new leverage in securing our own neighbourhood, says Nitin Pai.
Negotiating a sustainable compromise with Iran is not getting any easier, and this delay might not yield the desired result of bringing Tehran's nuclear programme under stringent limits, says Claude Smadja
For Indians, Iran remains a puzzling part of our collective history.
'It is only because we were facing US threats that we were able to successfully develop a nuclear programme of our own.'
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