The United States said there was potential merit to Iran’s nuclear transparency deal with UN inspectors, after earlier branding it a diversionary gambit to forestall tougher UN sanctions.

US director Oliver Stone has postponed plans for a film about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and is instead focusing his energies on a film about Vietnam, Pinkville, his spokesman said Friday.

Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in a meeting with Iran’s visiting Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari stressed Tehran’s right of access to peaceful nuclear technology while fulfilling all its international commitments and obligations.