US, West Hindering Agreement on Iran’s Nuclear Issue
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said despite Tehran’s willingness to reach an agreement over its peaceful nuclear program, the US and West have hindered the final deal.
“We should demonstrate it to the world that we wanted an agreement but the US and West did not want it and, therefore, blocked the (final) deal,” Zarif was quoted by Rapporteur of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign policy Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini as saying in a meeting with the commission on Tuesday.
Zarif said that due to the Zionist lobbies’ activities, the Americans are not seeking to resolve the issue and do not want an agreement to be reached on Iran's nuclear issue, Naqavi Hosseini added.
The remarks came as nuclear negotiators representing Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) wrapped up the latest round of talks on Tehran’s civilian nuclear program in New York on September 26 without making any tangible progress.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi later said that the nuclear talks with the G5+1 will resume in a European city by mid-October.
The two sides on November 24, 2013, signed an interim nuclear deal in the Swiss city of Geneva.
Based on the interim deal, the world powers agreed to suspend some non-essential sanctions and to impose no new nuclear-related bans in return for Tehran's decision to freeze parts of its nuclear activities.
In July, Tehran and the six countries agreed to extend negotiations until November 24 in the hope of clinching a final deal.
