Few days after it had threatened it would close the Strait of Hormuz if the west sanctioned Iran the Islamic Republic declared it was ready to resume nuclear talks with the West.

Few days after it had threatened it would close the Strait of Hormuz if the west sanctioned Iran; the Islamic Republic declared it was ready to resume nuclear talks with the West.

Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said in a meeting with a visiting Chinese official in Tehran that Iran was ready to resume talks with the six world powers over its nuclear programs.

Additionally, chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili plans to inform European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton about Iran's readiness to resume the nuclear talks.

For his part, Iran’s ambassador to Germany, Alireza Sheikh Attar said necessary negotiations were already being carried out to arrange new round of talks between Iran and the 5+1 group (five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany).

“In addition to our recent letters to the European Union, we will soon send another letter and then a meeting will be arranged,” the Iranian diplomat told the Mehr News Agency.
“To arrange the modalities of negotiations Mr. Jalili is to give a letter to Ms. Ashton,” Sheikh Attar declared, adding that after this letter Iran and the 5+1 group start their negotiations.

Earlier on Tuesday, Iranian Vice President Mohammd-Reza Rahimi threatened that his country would not allow one drop of oil to cross the Strait of Hormuz, if Western countries sanctioned the Islamic Republic.

Iranian navy commander Admiral Habibollah Sayari also said that although there was currently no necessity for Iran to close the strait, "it would be as easy as drinking a glass of water."