Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH TV REPORT) Iran handed over Tuesday its response to an international incentive package aimed at easing Western fears that Tehran seeks to build atomic bombs, Iran’s state-run Al-Alam television reported, according to the Associated Press. The television said Ali Larijani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, had handed the response to envoys representing the six nations in Tehran at the Supreme National Security Council, which handles the nuclear file. It did not give details of the reply. Earlier, an informed source with the Supreme National Security Council said Iran’s response would be presented in a “matter of hours,” the national news agency IRNA reported. The source added the ambassadors from Germany, France, Britain, Russia, China and Switzerland had all been summoned to receive Iran’s response from Larijani, secretary of the council, according to the news agency.
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