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Iran has rejected as “totally fabricated” a Reuters report that the UN Security Council will lift sanctions against Tehran after approval by the US Congress.
Non-nuclear subjects, including the country's military issues, have no place in the negotiations at all, Shamkhani said in an interview with Arabic-language Al-Manar TV.
Kamalvandi said oppositions to the talks have created difficulties both for Iran and other negotiating countries in the course of nuclear negotiations.
He said that his government is committed to developing the country and removing the sanctions and will stand up against those who have a vested interest in foreign sanctions.
A Russian deputy foreign minister has said that sanctions against Iran will be suspended and subsequently canceled depending on how the IAEA certifies Tehran’s measures.
Professor Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian geopolitics researcher, says efforts to serve Iran’s national interests should not be put on hold because of the skepticism voiced by a few.
The Iranian embassies in Austria and Switzerland have voiced concern about recent media reports that Israel has spied on the venues of nuclear talks in the two European countries.
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami has said that everyone is entitled to express their views about the negotiations, adding all people should help the negotiators accomplish their tasks.
The intelligence minister has said that the country’s negotiators follow the Supreme Leader’s lead and defend Iran’s indisputable rights to peaceful nuclear energy.
A former Foreign Ministry spokesman says the Americans, who have prolonged the talks, cannot put on a holier-than-thou face blaming Iran for the inconclusiveness of the talks.
Iran’s standard chief says accreditation helps the country start doing business and rendering services on the same footing with its international counterparts.
A senior Iranian negotiator has outlined the general points of a mutual understanding that Iran and P5+1 reached in Lausanne over Tehran’s nuclear program.
The Atomic Energy Agency spokesman has rejected different interpretations of the Additional Protocol, saying it does not allow general access by inspectors to Iran’s sites.
Richard Howitt, a Member of the European Parliament, has said that the EP will open its Tehran office in 2016 after the conclusion of a nuclear deal between Iran and P5+1.
If the other side does not put forth excessive demands, nuclear negotiations will lead to a result by the announced deadline, deputy FM Majid Takht-e Ravanchi said.
