Final Nuclear Deal to Ensure Iran’s “Actual” Enrichment: Zarif
VIENNA (Tasnim) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif asserted that a comprehensive nuclear accord with world powers will definitely stipulate an “actual” nuclear enrichment program for Tehran as well as the removal of sanctions.
“Any final agreement will include an actual, not decorative, enrichment (program) for Iran and the removal of the (anti-Iran) sanctions,” Zarif told reporters in a press conference in Vienna on Monday night, after a week of intensive talks between Iran and group of six world powers (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) came to an end.
The talks started on November 18, bringing together foreign ministers from the parties in the hope of breaking a deadlock and secure a final agreement before the November 24 self-imposed deadline.
After a whole host of meetings, the last of which held among the foreign ministers and EU’s envoy Catherine Ashton, the parties decided to extend an interim nuclear deal they signed last year (the Joint Plan of Action) into July 1, 2015.
Elsewhere in his comments, Zarif expressed the confidence that parties can reach a consensus on the “framework” of a lasting accord within weeks, or even within days if “political will” is exercised.
"We believe that a negotiated solution is within reach," he asserted.
He said four months are enough to resolve outstanding issues in the nuclear negotiations, noting that the rest of the newly set seven-month deadline would be used to put complicated technical issues into a final agreement.
