Iran says US must state position on Israeli nukes

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the United States must make its position on Israel's nuclear strategy clear before talks on Tehran's atomic program could resume.

Sanctions imposed by "arrogant" Western powers would not slow Iran's nuclear progress, he said. "The first condition (for talks to resume) is they should express their views about the nuclear weapons of the Zionist regime. Do they agree with that or not. If they agree that these bombs should be available to them, the course of the dialogue would be different," he said, speaking in Nigeria. (Reuters)