Iran Nuclear Negotiations Will Resume Within Days
Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers will resume negotiations to draw up a final agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program within days, Catherine Ray, spokesperson for EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, says.
At a press briefing in Brussels on Friday, she added that the negotiating sides were maintaining contact by phone and e-mail.
Ray said she would inform the media on the exact day of the talks as soon as it has been agreed upon.
She emphasized that the European Union is trying hard and playing an intermediary role in the negotiations.
The comments came a day after Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said it is the very specifics of the nuclear negotiations between Iran and six world powers that would determine the fate of the talks.
“Everything lies in the details,” said the Leader in an address on Thursday.
Ayatollah Khamenei further underlined that any deal would have to “ensure the interests and dignity of the [Iranian] people”
Iran and five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the US, Britain, France, Russia and China — plus Germany along with officials from the European Union reached a mutual understanding on Tehran’s nuclear program after eight days of marathon talks in Switzerland on April 2.
The two sides will now work on drawing up a final accord by the self-designated June 30 deadline.
Salehi stresses no halt to Iranian nuclear sites’ activities
Meanwhile, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi underlined that there will be no halt to the operation of Iran’s nuclear sites.
“None of Iran’s nuclear facilities will cease activity,” Salehi said on Friday.
He also reiterated that Iran will continue to its nuclear enrichment activities like before.
According to the Lausanne statement, none of Iran’s nuclear facilities and previous activities will be stopped, shut down or suspended and Iran’s nuclear activities in all its nuclear facilities, including Natanz, Fordo, Isfahan and Arak will continue.
On Thursday, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei specified conditions for a final nuclear deal with the world powers, and underlined that Iran doesn’t allow any inspection of its defensive and military centers.
“They (the foreigners) shouldn’t be allowed at all to penetrate into the country’s security and defensive boundaries under the pretext of supervision, and the country’s military officials are not permitted at all to allow the foreigners to cross these boundaries or stop the country’s defensive development under the pretext of supervision and inspection,” Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a large number of Iranian people in Tehran.
Elaborating on his position on the recent nuclear statement issued by Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) in Lausanne, Switzerland, he said, “I am neither in favor nor against it since nothing has happened yet and no binding issue has occurred between the two sides.”
Ayatollah Khamenei underscored that he will support a final deal which would guarantee the Iranian nation’s honor and interests, and added, “I am not indifferent to the negotiations but I have not interfered in the details of the negotiations by now and will not interfere in the future either.”
Stressing that the underway talks between Tehran and the world powers are merely limited to the nuclear issue, he advised the Iranian officials and negotiators not to trust the other side as their untrustworthiness was seen in the recent remarks by US President Barack Obama after the joint nuclear statement.
Ayatollah Khamenei stressed the necessity for continued progress in the country’s nuclear Research and Development (R&D) and development of the nuclear industry, and said another important issue in the final deal is that “the sanctions should be removed completely on the same day (of the implementation) of any agreement“.
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