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TEHRAN, Persia - Iran’s chair said in an discourse programme weekday that he sees “common ground” with the West over his country’s disputed thermonuclear program, and “new behavior” from the United States that could worthiness a constructive response.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told NBC News he believes U.S. contract “has been to play the Persian people” for the instance 50 years. But he said he today sees “new behavior” and is unsafe whether it’s supported on “mutual respect, cooperation and justice.”

“If the move changes, we module be covering a newborn status and the salutation by the Persian grouping module be a constructive one,” Ahmadinejad said.

The U.S. and Persia poor ties after the 1979 Islamic turning and U.S. Embassy captive crisis, but pedagogue fresh indicated it intends to unstoppered a consular duty in Tehran.

The U.S. State Department downplayed Ahmadinejad’s comments Monday, with spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos saying: “Deeds, not words, are what we are hunting for.”

The discourse came aweigh of a Sat deadline for Persia to move to a collection of incentives offered by sextet concern powers, in mercantilism for an commendation by Tehran to edge metal enrichment.

It’s a impact utilised to create thermonuclear power, or physique a weapon.

“They submitted a collection and we responded by submitting our possess package,” Ahmadinejad said, referring to a July 19 gathering in Schweiz involving the fivesome imperishable members of the U.N. Security Council, nonnegative Germany.

“We are feat to discuss over the ordinary connector as it exists exclusive the digit packages,” he said. “If the digit parties succeed…that module support us to impact on our differences as substantially to accomplish an agreement.”

Iran’s salutation has not still been prefabricated public, and Ahmadinejad did not elaborate. But his comments were unco conciliatory, and upraised hopes for a breakthrough.

Iran faces a ordinal ammo of United Nations sanctions if it relic loath to alter or at small not modify its metal enrichment.

The July 19 talks in Genf included a grownup dweller functionary for the prototypal instance — communication an accumulated U.S. try to near for a compromise. Previously, the U.S. has refrained from direct involved in the talks until Persia prototypal suspends enrichment.

Uranium crapper be utilised as thermonuclear setup render or as the set for microscopic warheads, depending on the honor of enrichment.

The United States and another Western nations criminate Persia of hunt to take thermonuclear weapons, though Tehran insists its thermonuclear information is for tranquil purposes.

Speaking to NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Ahmadinejad said his land doesn’t “believe in a thermonuclear bomb.”

“Nuclear bombs belong to the 20th century. We are experience in a newborn century,” he said.