An Iranian lawmaker says the United States should show its good will by lifting illegal sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, the spokesman for the Majlis (Iranian Parliament) Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, made the remarks in an interview with the Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency (ICANA) on Sunday.
“The Americans should prove their good will by taking practical steps” such as “ending enmity with the Iranian nation and lifting sanctions,” said the Iranian MP.
Following a Thursday meeting between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Russia, China, Britain, France and the US - plus Germany in New York over Tehran’s nuclear energy program, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington could begin removing bans on Tehran within months if a “transparent process is in place” over the nuclear issue.

Later on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week” program that Iran is “prepared to negotiate,” over its nuclear issue, adding, “Our right to enrich (uranium) is non-negotiable.”

“We do not need military grade uranium. That is a certainty and we will not move in that direction. But what is necessary is for the two sides is to sit together and reach a common objective. We should not have two competing objectives,” Zarif stated.

The United States, Israel and some of their allies falsely claim that Iran is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program, with the US and the European Union using the unfounded allegation as a pretext to impose illegal sanctions on Iran.

Tehran strongly rejects the claim against its nuclear energy program, maintaining that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

By Press TV

 

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