“If the issue of the suspension of uranium enrichment is raised in Baghdad, the talks will fail. The P5+1 group [comprising Britain, China, France, Russia, and the US plus Germany] is well aware of this point,” Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said on Saturday.
Falahatpisheh added, “Hardliners in Western countries are under the influence of the Zionist regime’s lobbies and reactionary Arab states. They are trying to invent some pretext to stop Iran’s nuclear program, and prevent Iran and the P5+1 from reaching an agreement in Baghdad.”
Speaking at the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh said the Islamic Republic would never stop its uranium enrichment activities and would vigorously pursue its nuclear energy program.
The Iranian envoy also stressed that Iran would remain committed to its obligations based on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The latest round of talks between Iran and the five members of the P5+1 group was held in the Turkish city of Istanbul on April 14. Both sides hailed the discussions as constructive.
They agreed to hold the next round of talks in Baghdad on May 23, 2012.
Tehran and the P5+1 previously held two rounds of talks, one in Geneva, Switzerland in December 2010 and another in Istanbul in January 2011.
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