Iran nuclear negotiator quits
2005-07-06 15:51
Tehran - Iran's top nuclear negotiator has resigned, the state news agency reported on Wednesday.
This raises the prospect that the country's hard-line president will put forward a new team for fragile talks with the Europeans over the controversial nuclear programme.
Hasan Rowhani submitted his resignation to the outgoing president, the Islamic Revolution News Agency reported.
The new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is due to be inaugurated early next month.
Rowhani was also the secretary of the powerful supreme national security council and has been at the head of negotiations with Europe.
He had expresses support for Ahmadinejad's more moderate opponent, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, in last month's presidential elections.
- AP