MOSCOW, March 1 (RIA Novosti) - There is no need for Iran to re-impose a moratorium on uranium enrichment to resolve the controversy around its nuclear programs, the country's top nuclear negotiator said Wednesday.
"A moratorium is needed if something dangerous exists," Ali Larijani said at talks in Moscow. "We are at the research stage and all our activities are transparent."
Larijani said Iran was ready for any inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, if the inspections complied with international law.
He said questions from the IAEA that Iran was answering were not related to the moratorium.
"We have no extraordinary demands, we are defending the rights given to Iran within the IAEA," Larijani said. "We agree to IAEA inspections, to those international inspections that are legal." 
Larijani also said peaceful nuclear research was Iran's right.
"We believe that non-peaceful nuclear research is wrong. We believe that the Middle East should be free from nuclear weapons," he said, adding that politics currently dominated the Iranian nuclear issue and that the current political consultations could defuse the crisis.
"I believe no one should threaten countries given these rights [for peaceful nuclear development within the IAEA] and agree to act within this framework," he said.
According to Larijani, threats are ineffective and a reasonable formula was needed for a constructive dialogue.
