The United States is the main obstacle to a comprehensive agreement between Iran and the six world powers on Tehran’s nuclear energy program, a senior Iranian lawmaker says.
“The US is the biggest obstacle in the way of the success of the [nuclear] negotiations and its demands are beyond those of the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty] and even the P5+1,” spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said on Monday.
He added that if the ongoing nuclear talks fail to bear fruit, Western powers will face a "much stronger Iran."
“Iran’s nuclear negotiating team will not retreat from the nation’s nuclear rights and it is the Westerners who should relinquish their excessive demands. Otherwise, the talks will be fruitless,” the Iranian legislator pointed out.
He emphasized that Iran’s negotiators will not be affected by the West’s media propaganda and will strongly defend the country’s nuclear rights.
Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China – plus Germany formally kicked off the sixth round of nuclear talks in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on July 3 to discuss a permanent accord.
Iran and the six countries have been discussing ways to sort out their differences and achieve a final deal that would end the decade-old dispute over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
The two sides inked an interim accord in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 23, 2013. The deal came into force in January and expires on July 20, but can be extended depending on the agreement of all parties involved.
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