The provisional Friday Prayers Imam of Tehran brought up the “final steps toward a comprehensive nuclear agreement” with six world powers and appreciated the wise management of the negotiations by President Hassan Rouhani.

Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi also thanked President Rouhani for expressing clear and precise stands about the Iranian nuclear program and the nuclear negotiations during his recent visit of the holy Qom City.

“We thank Almighty God that the esteemed president in Qom and during his meetings with the prominent clerics in that city… declared clear and promising stands and announced that Iran will not yield to humiliation, a shutdown (of nuclear facilities) or continuation of the sanctions,’ said Seddiqi addressing thousands of worshippers.

He said that His Eminence the Leader of Revolution in his last address about the nuclear negotiations stated that the Westerners are used to lengthy bargaining, a case in point for 60 years Palestine has been occupied by the usurper Zionist regime, but they are still negotiating while Israel is destroying Palestinian infrastructure and those useless talks keep going on and on and on.

“His Eminence added that if that is going to be the case, we insist that the main points and the minute details need to be resolved all together; but they intend to keep the sanctions in effect and block the path for our country’s progress and prosperity, which is not acceptable as all sanctions need to be lifted and annulled together,” he said.

Seddiqi reiterated that the Westerners are not allowed to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs; neither are they allowed to define the quantity of the fuel that we can produce.

“Such blackmailing was a characteristic of the colonial era, not the Islamic Revolution’s period in which Iran is conquering the peaks of scientific progress,” he stressed.

Hojjatoleslam Seddiqi added that Arak Heavy Water Reactor must be activated; Fordo needs to continue its activities and the extent of enrichment must not be restricted as these are our people’s demands and they will not be content getting anything less.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the US should rectify its wrong approach vis-à-vis negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program.

“It is the Americans that should try to rectify the wrong steps they have taken [towards the Iranian nuclear issue],” Rouhani told reporters in the central Iranian city of Qom on Thursday.

The US was behind the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear work as it prevented Iran and the three European countries – Britain, France and Germany – from reaching a nuclear agreement at the end of 2004, Rouhani said.

Iran is seeking the removal of sanctions against the country through nuclear talks with P5+1, the president noted.

“We seek to take away the tool of sanctions from the enemy through negotiations because sanctions are unjust, cruel and in contravention of human rights, and to that end, talks are the best way,” he said.

Even if the ongoing nuclear talks fail to lead to an agreement, said Rouhani, the world community will know that the opposite side is to blame.

American officials have admitted and told Congress that if they fail in nuclear talks with Iran, they will be isolated, Rouhani added.

Representatives from Iran and the United States started nuclear talks earlier this week in the Swiss city of Geneva. They held three rounds of negotiations in an attempt to narrow their differences.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva on Monday after the end of the talks, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said negotiators from Iran and P5+1 – Britain, France, China, Russia, and the United States plus Germany – will resume their discussions in the Swiss city next week.

Iran and the six world powers have missed two deadlines so far to reach a nuclear agreement since an interim deal was sealed in November 2013. The two sides have set July 1 as the next deadline for reaching a final deal.