President Talabani was greeted at the airport in Tehran by top Iranian officials, as he arrived in the early morning Friday for his second visit to the Iranian capital in just over two years.
He was a disaffected Iranian official with information to share.
Initially caught off guard, Iranian officials were quickly back on the offensive.
Iranian officials have rejected the offers and have refused to suspend uranium enrichment activities, a condition for receiving the incentives and eventually the lifting of sanctions.
But Qom also raises the possibility of other secret sites, something Iranian officials flatly deny.
But other Iranian media reports — quoting Iranian officials — said the aircraft was Hungarian and no Americans were on the plane.
A senior Iranian official has said the release of an American woman detained near the border with Iraq more than a year ago will not now go ahead on Saturday as announced.
Meanwhile, Iranian officials have promised a crushing response to any military strike against the country.
His mettle will be tested soon, when Iranian officials are expected to meet nuclear negotiators from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the United States.
An Iranian diplomat who was mysteriously kidnapped in Iraq two months ago was released just as mysteriously, and Iraq said it was trying to secure the freedom of five Iranian officials arrested by.
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