All Redlines Observed in Nuclear Talks: Iran’s President
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani maintained that Iran’s negotiators in nuclear talks with world powers have stuck to the country’s entire redlines, such as the necessity for continuation of uranium enrichment or termination of the anti-Iran sanctions.
Continuation of uranium enrichment as well as research and development (R&D) in the nuclear field in Iran and termination of the anti-Iran resolutions and economic sanctions are among the country’s redlines in nuclear talks with the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany), President Rouhani said in a gathering of provincial officials in the northeastern city of Bojnourd on Sunday.
He also gave an assurance that the administration and the team of nuclear negotiators have fully observed the country’s redlines so far.
“This is the first time in the world’s political history that a country, whose case in the (UN) Security Council has been under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, has sat at the negotiating table with (world) powers, and has been able to achieve all its major goals while observing its redlines,” Rouhani explained.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (alternatively known as the P5+1 or E3+3) have held several rounds of talks in recent months to hammer out a lasting accord that would end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran's civilian nuclear program.
On April 2, Iran and the sextet reached a framework nuclear agreement in Lausanne, Switzerland, with both sides committed to push for a final deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), until the end of June.