Tehran snubbed the West in talks on the Islamic republic's contentious nuclear programme, Iranian media reports said on Sunday, blaming Western mistakes for the failure of the dialogue. But most newspapers stuck to straight news reports on the two-day meeting in Istanbul which ended on Saturday, with a few offering editorial comments which took shots at the West.
"The West was passive to Iran's proposals," said a front-page headline in the state-run Iran newspaper, while the moderate Tehran Emrouz said: "Iran snubs America." The Farsi-language hardline newspaper Kayhan echoed the Iran newspaper's view with a page-one banner that read: "Fruitless talks as Iran refuses to be blackmailed."
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