Tehran: In a secret letter to Iranian leader President Barack Obama has told Iran that the United States would accept Tehran having a civilian nuclear program if the Islamic state can prove it is not seeking atomic weapons.
The letter was sent to Tehran via Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who delivered it to Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei last week, the Washington Post said.
"President Obama has signalled Iran that the United States would accept an Iranian civilian nuclear program if Supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei can back up his recent public claim that his nation 'will never pursue nuclear weapons'," said the newspaper's foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius.
