Iran's presidential hopeful says relations with U.S. not taboo

TEHRAN, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Iran's reformist presidential hopeful Mir-Hossein Mousavi said in a campaign program that "Iran's relations with the United States is not a taboo," the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.

Referring to the change of rhetoric in the U.S. administration, Mousavi said that "If this different literature is put into practice, then the relations with the United States will not be a taboo."

Expressing hope to do the problems between the two counties, he

said, "The United States is a country with which we have had complex and age-old problems. The problems which had reached their

peak prior to (President Barack) Obama's era."

On Friday, Mousavi also said at a press conference that holding

talks with the United States is not a "taboo" for him.

"There is a possibility (for the relations) to become better, but (Iran's) relation with the United States is complicated and it takes time," he said.