AP Interview: Top Iran Adviser Reaches Out to West

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALI AKBAR DAREINI 

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A top adviser to Iran's supreme leader says the election of centrist Hasan Rouhani as the country's president gives an opportunity to world powers to reach a deal with Iran over its nuclear program - but that Tehran will never again suspend its nuclear activities.

Ali Akbar Velayati, who advises Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on key matters including the nuclear issue, told The Associated Press that the onus was on the West to reach out to Iran, but pledged that Iran would respond with a "different language" from the bombastic rhetoric used by Rouhani's predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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