Iran’s President: Nuclear Deal Requires Determination
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on the parties engaged in nuclear talks with Tehran to express the necessary determination to clinch a final agreement, noting that Iran has already shown enough flexibility in the talks.
“Over the past months, we have shown the necessary flexibility to settle the (nuclear) case politically, and we hope that the other negotiating side would also show the required determination more than before to resolve the issue,” President Rouhani said in a gathering of foreign diplomats and ambassadors in Tehran on Tuesday.
The president said if the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) has the political will, the sticking points in the course of nuclear talks will be “quickly” removed.
He also reiterated that Iran has been and still is pursuing a “win-win agreement” over its peaceful nuclear program.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (also known as the P5+1 or E3+3) 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.
Elsewhere in his address, President Rouhani underlined that his administration’s foreign policy is based upon constructive interaction with the world, saying Iran’s ties neighbors and others have improved in light of such an attitude.