[Wall Street Journal] Jay Solomon and Farnaz Fassihi - The U.S. expressed a willingness to hold one-on-one meetings with Iranian negotiators in Geneva on Thursday, as the Obama administration and other world powers prepared for crucial talks aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Iranian President Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that he might be willing to fuel Iran's nuclear facilities through purchases of enriched uranium from third countries. The Obama administration, in another sign of outreach toward Iran, said it had granted Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki a visa so he could visit Tehran's interest section in Washington Wednesday. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley stressed that Mottaki wasn't meeting any U.S. officials during his stay. But European diplomats said such a high-level trip to Washington by an Iranian official was "unprecedented" since the revolution.
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