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Iran FM: We`ll cooperate with U.S. if Obama changes policies
By Reuters
Tags: U.S., Iran, Israel News 

Iran is ready to cooperate with President Barack Obama if the United States changes its policies and practices in the region, Iran's Foreign Minister said on Thursday.

"We do believe that if the new administration of the United States, as Mr. Obama said, is going to change its policies, not in saying but in practice, definitely they will find the region in a cooperative approach and reaction," said Manouchechr Mottaki.

"And Iran is not excluded from this general understanding in our region," the Iranian foreign minister said at a panel before the World Economic Forum.
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Mottaki's comments came after the British newspaper The Guardian reported on Thursday that Obama's aides have drafted a letter in his name to Iranian leaders that aims to thaw relations between the two countries.

According to the report, officials from the U.S. State Department have been working on the letter - in response to a letter of congratulations from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - since Obama was elected on November 4, 2008
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