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Iran would welcome talks between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and US President-elect Barack Obama, the country's vice president said in an interview with Japan's Kyodo news agency

Vice President Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie said in the interview in Tokyo that any such meeting must be held in an open manner and its contents made public, the agency said.