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Iran urges US to take more steps to end N-disputes
Published on Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 17:15 in 
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NUCLEAR ROW: Ahmadinejad says he is still open to a debate with his US counterpart.
New Delhi: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked US to take more steps to end nuclear disputes.
He said that he is still open to a debate with his US counterpart George W Bush. He also called the recent U-S intelligence report is a step forward.
It was a new Ahmadinejad the Iranian president's tone subdued and when it came to the recent national intelligence estimate report, while denying Iran ever had a weapons program.
Ahmadinejad laid the seeds perhaps for reconciliation.
“This step by the US government is a positive one. This is one step forward. If they take one or two more steps, the conditions will totally change. And the problems we have before us will be no longer complex and the road will paved to solve the basic problems between the two countries, “Ahmadinejad said.
This was a president not looking to rally his hardline base, it seemed, with anti-US rhetoric.
A man who said he thought another round of United Nations sanctions after the latest American intelligence report on Iran's nuclear intentions was ‘unlikely’ for a president known for controversy this was a rare instance of toned down rhetoric.
Iran sees a moment perhaps to define a different relationship with the US and the world.
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