Iran's chief negotiator with the West over Tehran's nuclear programme, Ali Larijani, has resigned.
A government spokesman said Mr Larijani had repeatedly offered his resignation and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had finally accepted it.
Mr Larijani had differences with the president over how to proceed with the negotiations, correspondents say.
Western countries suspect Iran of trying to build nuclear weapons but Tehran says its programme is peaceful.
The spokesman, Gholam Hossein Elham, said a deputy foreign minister, Saeed Jalili, would replace Mr Larijani in time for a meeting on Tuesday with the European Union's foreign policy head Javier Solana.
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The truth is that Iran has a military nuclear program and a civil nuclear program. What people in the West never seem to get through their thick heads is that the two are distinctly and utterly seperate. At the moment the military nuclear program is on hold but presumably it will resume. The military nuclear program is in addition and seperate from the stuff Larijani was dealing with. Whether he even has anything more than a sketchy knowledge of the military nuclear program is debatable. Whether soft old Larijani is there to molicodle the West or not is scarcely the issue. We are probably far better without him. Less deception by far ! ! !
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