Rouhani Says Iran 'Serious' about Talks on Final Nuclear Deal
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President Hassan Rouhani said Monday Iran is "serious" about negotiations on a comprehensive deal with world powers over its controversial nuclear drive, a week before fresh talks in Vienna.
"Iran is ready to enter negotiations with the P5+1 (group of world powers) to reach a comprehensive and final agreement," Rouhani told Tehran-based foreign diplomats in remarks broadcast live on state television.
"We are serious in this regard, as we were serious in the first step," he said referring to three rounds of intensive negotiations last year that culminated in a landmark, interim deal on November 24.
Under the accord, Iran agreed to temporarily cap parts of its nuclear activities amid suspicions in the West and Israel that its work masks military objectives despite its repeated denials.
In exchange, it received modest relief from crippling international sanctions as well as a promise by Western powers that new sanctions would not be imposed against it during the six-month duration of the interim deal, which came into effect on January 20.
In the next round of talks, Iran and the P5+1 group -- the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany -- are to strive for a comprehensive accord that would once and for all solve the decade-long standoff over Iran's nuclear drive.
Iranian negotiators and counterparts from the P5+1 will resume the talks in Vienna on February 18 in a process that is expected to last months.
Rouhani's remarks came a day after Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog struck a seven-step deal in separate but parallel negotiations that seek to enhance transparency over Tehran's nuclear work.
That deal included a promise by Iran to clarify its use of detonators as part of a probe into long-standing allegations that its past nuclear work, mostly before 2003, had "possible military dimensions."
10 February 2014, 17:27
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Till now u have been a great progress since ur predecesor (ahmadinajad) mr rouhani i hope u will be strong enough to keep head against hardliners backing khoumayini, maybe getting iran out of obscurantism and fanatics bassij and iranian guardian of the revolution..
Giving also a litle freedome to ur population like internet access would also help..
Anyway good luck mr rouhani..
10 February 2014, 18:17
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let us see when the hardliners will kill him. lost chances of peace.
10 February 2014, 19:29
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They already have internet access, it is one of the most progressiv countries in the region, everything Iran has is something they produced themselves. So all this western propaganda is crap imagine.
For the atomic matter, Iran has every right to create peaceful nuclear technology.
10 February 2014, 20:38
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They were dowing campagnes a month ago for non restricted internet access, rouhani got blamed from some hardliners for using twitter (forbiden)...
Man please put out ur head from..SANA and please go have some chupachups...
10 February 2014, 23:28
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Not really. It is all purchased or borrowed technology. Oil money does wonders. Progressive, really? Throughout the history, not much peace has come out of the Persians. Shall we remind you of the alleged Israeli/Lebanese was of 2006.
10 February 2014, 19:40
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anony, Iran has food for all it's people. Noone is starving overthere as they did under the Shah, they produce and farm all their food themselves, and i can tell you the western sanctions do not hurt one bit, there will always be good non western countries to do buisness with.
10 February 2014, 22:14
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One order and episode anony, even if that is true you know aswell as i, that it doesn't affect the whole food industry. You guys really are funny. Especially you americans, how about your country that suffers from 30% unemployment.
10 February 2014, 18:26
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Rouhani is as serious as a heart attack and as serious as his fake degree from Scotland.
10 February 2014, 20:00
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He's serious alright, but not about abandoning his nuclear program. The region does not work this way. This is like the handcuffed blind folded man who has a tasty morsel put out before him on a stick just beyond his reach and they lead him around in a futile effort to sate his appetite on a morsel that he'll never get.
10 February 2014, 20:42
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Any lebanese agenda southern?.. U know lebanon, our country, the one heros came form all regions to defend the south SOUTHERN....
Man, seriously go hv some chupachups...
10 February 2014, 21:04
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So the syrian "moumana3a" (resitane regime as well islamic iranian republic (backbone of our islamic reistance aka hezbollah) can enjoy relation with the USA while we will be the arow of the resistance againt the imperialistic west... (Sorry but this how i imagine u think..:)
Well if it is for chebaa and kafarchouba syrian regime refused to hand demarcation papers and nassralah said in televised speach that even if get a un resolution for israelli pulback hezbos arms will stay blablablabla...
I'm lebanese as you are, i have also the right to decide the fate of my country.
SOUTHERN PLEASE GO HAVE SOME CHUPCHUPS...
10 February 2014, 21:59
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Texas this is not about religion, this guy should know that some of us supported true patritic resistance, sone of us believes in this coutry, some of us might not (snsp believes in great syria, baath believes in pan arab state... ) but what ever u believe no one has the right to impose such descision (that put stability of the country at stake) on the others...
How hard is this to understand????
