Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has assured Germany, one of the European Union Big Three involved in nuclear negotiations with Tehran, that his country is opposed to any sort of nuclear weapons, ISNA news agency reported Saturday. In a letter to German President Horst Kohler thanking him for his congratulations following last month's presidential victory, Ahmadinejad wrote that Iran would give the utmost priority to the fight against terrorism and the desire for nuclear weapons to be dismantled, according to DPA. In a June 26 letter, Kohler had said that Germany was prepared, together with its European partners to work towards better cooperation with Iran.
