[caption id="attachment_24017" align="alignright" width="180"] Spokesman for Iran’s Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Seyyed Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini[/caption]
A senior Iranian lawmaker says the Iranian negotiating team will not back down from Tehran’s right to enrich uranium in the ongoing nuclear talks with the six world powers.
“The negotiating team will not retreat from the Iranian nation’s right to enrichment to whatever degree is needed by the country’s nuclear industry and it considers the issue as a redline and it will make no deals in this regard,” spokesman for the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran Majlis, Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, said in a Thursday interview.
“Everybody should trust the nuclear negotiating team, so that they would defend the rights of the [Islamic] establishment with strength and succeed in this regard,” he added.
Iran and six world powers -- the US, France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany -- on Thursday started the second day of their new round of talks over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program.

Iran Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, also a nuclear negotiator, told Press TV on Thursday that the two sides agreed that any deal must include reciprocal measures.

“It’s still too soon to confirm anything, but this is a principle we have already agreed upon that any measures that should be taken by each side should be equal and balanced with the measures that the other side should take,” he said.

During the last round of talks in Geneva in early November, a first-step agreement was within reach but the position taken by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in favor of the Israeli regime and a lack of commitment by US Secretary of State John Kerry spoiled the negotiations.

By Press TV

 

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