MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's president on Friday urged Iran to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its nuclear program, the Kremlin press service said.
It said Dmitry Medvedev had discussed the issue with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the phone. Medvedev, the statement said, had "urged Iran to fully cooperate with the IAEA to clarify all the remaining issues concerning the Iranian nuclear program."
Iran is currently under three sets of relatively mild UN Security Council sanctions for defying demands to halt uranium enrichment, which it says it needs purely for electricity generation. It has denied accusations that it is trying to develop a nuclear weapon.
The statement said that Medvedev had once more expressed Russia's view that the dispute over the Islamic Republic's controversial uranium enrichment program should be resolved through diplomacy.
