(18 Jan 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Saeed Jalili, Iranian Nuclear Negotiator, walking to podium
2. Cutaway of cameraman
3. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Saeed Jalili, Iranian Nuclear Negotiator:
"We have seen that these wrong policies in the past years have damaged and aversely affected the American people."
4. Wide cutaway presser
5. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Saeed Jalili, Iranian Nuclear Negotiator:
"These policies have caused the American people some expense and has made them lose face."
6. Close journalist cutaway
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Saeed Jalili, Iranian Nuclear Negotiator:
"This policy will fail."
8. Cutaway mid journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Saeed Jalili, Iranian Nuclear Negotiator:
"Iran and China has had a good relationship and have cooperated in different areas"
10. Wide cameramen and reporters
11. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Saeed Jalili, Iranian Nuclear Negotiator:
"Such a good friend like China understands and knows Iran's position."
12. Wide cameraman pan to journalists and Jalili at podium
STORYLINE
Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, on Friday, lashed out at United States accusations that Iran was seeking to build nuclear weapons and called sanctions against his country a "failed policy."
"We have seen that these wrong policies in the past years have damaged and aversely affected the American people," Jalili told a news conference in Beijing where he met with several Chinese officials.
"These policies have caused the American people some expense and has made them lose face," he said.
Jalili revealed few details about his visit to China but described the talks as "very pleasant."
"Iran and China has had a good relationship and have cooperated in different areas,"Jalili said.
"Such a good friend like China understands and knows Iran's position," he continued.
The meeting saw China - under pressure from Washington to back new sanctions on Iran - and to urge Tehran to further engage with the international community over its nuclear programme.
China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was quoted by the Xinhua News Agency as saying that the Iranian nuclear issue is now at a crucial moment.
Yang and other officials met with Iran's top nuclear negotiator during the Thursday and Friday meetings, but it was not clear what if any assurances Beijing had offered to Tehran, a traditional ally with whom it maintains extensive business ties.
Beijing backed two earlier resolutions but has said it won't back proposed new sanctions aimed at compelling Iran to freeze uranium enrichment and meet other council demands.
Russian and Chinese opposition to further sanctions has hardened since the release of a US National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Tehran abandoned a nuclear program in 2003.
Analysts say that China is likely to push Iran to comply with previous Security Council, but is unlikely to be any more supportive of new sanctions now.
Iran last year agreed as part of an IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) probe to answer all lingering questions about its past nuclear activities- including those it has evaded since 2003, when nearly 20 years of Iranian clandestine atomic work were revealed.
Although Iran reportedly said it would issue a report within four weeks, US Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte, said in Beijing that he would press China to support additional sanctions.
The US is also considering imposing more penalties of its own to step up pressure on Tehran to halt activities that could lead to the development of a nuclear weapon.

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