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Iranians make their choice to engage with dignity - FM

Nuclear Program Materials 20 March 2015 15:03 (UTC +04:00)
Iranians have already made their choice: engage with dignity, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded to US President Barack Obama’s video message to the Iranian people, RIA Novosti reported with the reference to IRNA agency March 20.
Iranians make their choice to engage with dignity - FM

Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 20

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Iranians have already made their choice: engage with dignity, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded to US President Barack Obama's video message to the Iranian people, RIA Novosti reported with the reference to IRNA agency March 20.

"It's high time for the US and its allies to chose: pressure or agreement," he said.

In his address to people and leaders of Iran on the occasion of Novruz holiday, President Obama said this year represented the "best opportunity in decades" for Iran and the US to improve relations.

"The two sides have already complied with the mutual agreement," President Obama said.

President Obama called Iranian people as "heirs of ancient civilization" and congratulated on the Novruz holiday. The president expressed the hope that Iran and the US will improve relations.

Iran and the P5+1 (the US, the UK, Russia, China, France and Germany) are aiming to reach a political understanding by March 31 in the run-up to a comprehensive deal by July 1 deadline.

After the sides failed to meet the November 24, 2014 deadline they also extended the Geneva nuclear deal, which was signed in November 2013 to provide Iran with some sanctions relief in exchange for Tehran agreeing to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities.

The last round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 was held in the Swiss town of Montreux in the first week of March.

The US and its Western allies suspect Iran of developing a nuclear weapon, something that Iran denies.

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