Nuclear Talks Need Logic: Iran Speaker

“The negotiations should be focused on detailed and profound discussions that would persuade the opposite side,” Ali Larijani told reporters in Tehran on Monday.

He made the comments on the sidelines of an international congress for consultation among the foreign guests who are in Iran to take part in the celebrations and rallies on the anniversary of the victory of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Larijani also called on the parties engaged in nuclear talks with Iran to abandon the idea of adopting “bargain-style” approaches in the negotiations.

One should not resort to “pressure and slogans” to deceive the other side, he noted.

The speaker, however, added that the Iranian diplomats and negotiators are so “smart” that can handle the talks appropriately.

Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) are in talks to hammer out a final agreement to end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

Following an interim nuclear deal signed in Geneva in November 2013, two deadlines for a final, comprehensive deal have been missed, and now a third one is looming on July 1.

Meanwhile, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei made it clear on Sunday that any nuclear deal between Iran and world powers should be implementable, stressing that "no deal will be better than a bad one," including a two-stage agreement.

The Leader expressed outright opposition to the idea of a two-stage nuclear deal, which entails consensus on the generalities at first and requires agreement on details at a later time.

“Such a deal is not acceptable, because our experience of the opposite side’s behavior shows that mere agreement on the generalities will become a tool for making successive excuses over details.”

“If there is to be any deal, it must have a single stage and include generalities and details together,” the Leader explained.