Tehran, Iran, Jan. 28
By Milad Fashtami - Trend:
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries can reach nuclear agreement in less than 4 months, if the other side shows political will.
"If they want to reach agreement, they need to be realistic," he said, Iran's Fars News Agency reported on Jan. 28.
"The other side should know that Iranians will never bow to pressure, so if they want to reach an agreement they need to lift the pressures," Zarif noted.
"The negotiations have reached a critical level. We are currently talking about the details," he explained.
"If we don't reach an agreement by the deadline, the talks won't be extended anymore," the Iranian minister said.
He went on to note that a new round of talks between Tehran and the P5+1 at the deputies level on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference have not been finalized yet.
The Munich Security Conference will kick off at the German city on Feb. 6.
"All the members of the P5+1 are not attending the conference, so we have not decided about any possible meeting yet," Zarif explained.
Iran and P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council comprising of China, France, Russia, Britain, the US Plus Germany) sealed an interim deal in Geneva on November 24,2013 to pave the way for the full resolution of the decade-old disputes over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
The Geneva deal took effect on January 20, 2014 and expired on July 20, 2014.
However, the two sides agreed to extend their talks for four months till November 24, 2014 to reach a permanent deal on Iran's disputed nuclear program.
At a meeting held on November 24, 2014, the sides agreed to extend the talks for further seven months.
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