Baku, Azerbaijan, May 13
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Iran has gained all its goals in nuclear talks with the P5+ 1 in terms of technical issues, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Islamic Republic's Atomic Energy Organization said, Iran 's Fars news agency reported May 13.
He further said that the Islamic Republic now has no concerns about the technical aspects of the negotiations.
Iran will not give in to the pressures, Salehi said, adding the nuclear negotiators will never violate the red lines determined by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The negotiations are being pursued within the specified frameworks, Salehi said. Salehi, who is Iran 's top nuclear negotiator on technical issues, also touched upon his recent comments, " US backing away from commitments in nuclear talks" and underlined that there is not any serious problem in this regard.
Earlier Salehi said that the US side "is low-balling with regard to certain issues that Iran and the P5+1 had agreed on." However, while challenging the US, he declared that the talks were progressing well.
Iran and the P5+1 (the US, UK, France, Russia , China , and Germany ) reached a nuclear framework agreement on April 2 in Lausanne that raised hopes for achieving a comprehensive nuclear deal by June 30.
The deal provisions the removal of all international sanctions on Iran and in return narrowing the range of the country's nuclear activities.
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