Larijani urges Iran firm stance in talks

“Enjoying the peaceful nuclear technology is Iran’s inalienable right and the nuclear negotiating team, considering its good performance so far, does not have the right to offer any concession or compromise to the West,” Larijani said Wednesday.

He said the West acted “deceitfully” in the negotiations with Iran, adding that the P5+1 was divided over their approach towards Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

“On the one hand, the P5+1 expresses readiness for talks and stresses negotiations on a logical basis, while on the other, they secretly seek more sanctions and radical behavior, which shows that there is a division among the members of the group,” he said.

Larijani added that the P5+1 has not followed an objective in the talks, but rather sought to impose more sanctions on Iran and block the country’s progress.

Iran and the P5+1 -Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany- wrapped up their last meeting in Baghdad on Thursday May 24 after two days of negotiations.

The Iranian negotiating delegation was headed by Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili and the delegations of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany were headed by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Both sides agreed to hold another round of talks in Moscow on June 18-19.

In a telephone conversation with Jalili on Tuesday, Ashton said the P5+1 were ready to hold talks on Tehran’s 5-point proposal in the forthcoming negotiations with Iran.

Stressing the necessity of achieving success in the upcoming talks in the Russian capital, Ashton expressed hope that both sides could find common grounds based on Iran’s proposal and the P5+1 package.

Jalili, for his part, stressed the importance of respecting the agreements reached in the previous P5+1 talks in Baghdad and Istanbul.

He said that Iran will clarify its 5-point proposal in the Moscow talks, stressing that an appropriate response to Tehran’s proposition can bring about progress in the talks.

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