Rouhani: Iran will never bow to sanctions and pressure
by Joseph Earnest November 24, 2014
Newscast Media VIENNA—Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the Iranian nation will never bow
to sanctions and pressure and will keep its nuclear facilities under
any agreement.
“Today, the opposite negotiating sides have
reached the conclusion that pressure and sanctions on Iran will not bear
fruit,” Rouhani said in a live television interview on Monday after
Iran and the six countries agreed to extend the nuclear talks for seven
months.
He added that Iran would never give up its nuclear
rights, saying that the country’s nuclear facilities would certainly
remain operational stressing that Iran would never stop its centrifuges.
He
noted that Iran pursues two main objectives in its talks with the P5+1
group, which include keeping its nuclear technology and lifting
sanctions on Tehran.
"At present, no one in the world has any
doubt that Iran must have nuclear technology, including enrichment on
its soil, and no one has any doubt that sanctions must be lifted,"
Rouhani added.
The Iranian president also pointed out that the
Iranian nation will be the final winner in the negotiations with the
P5+1 countries over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Rouhani emphasized
that the path of nuclear negotiations would lead to a final agreement,
noting that all the sides in the nuclear talks had consensus on the
extension of the nuclear talks as an effort to reach a final goal.
"Iran's
logic is one of negotiations and dialog; and nuclear talks will be
continued with seriousness until a final agreement is struck," he said.
Stressing that the latest round of nuclear talks in Vienna was
positive, Rouhani added that although the negotiating sides failed to
reach a final agreement, they managed to take steps forward because the
conditions now are "completely different from [what they were] three
months and six months ago, logics have come closer together and may of
gaps have been filled."
The sides took steps to reach an
understanding and a final agreement “but reaching a written and final
agreement needs time,” he added.
In their last round of talks
before a November 24 deadline for reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal,
Iran and the P5+1 countries—the United States, Russia, China,
Germany, France and Britain—held nearly a week of intense
negotiations in Vienna on how to tackle the remaining obstacles that
exist in the way of reaching an agreement.
At the end of the talks, the two sides agreed to extend the Joint Plan of Action to July 1, 2015.Add
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