“The side negotiating with us should know that conclusion of the talks and the result of a deal should be removal of the whole oppressive and illegal sanctions,” President Rouhani said in the city of Qom on Wednesday, commenting on the diplomatic talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program.
The president denounced sanctions as cruelty to the Iranian nation that also go counter to the human rights.
Iran will not accept any “imposition, humiliation and continuation of sanctions,” the president underlined.
He also made it clear that development is the Iranian nation’s inalienable right.
"We will continue the talks with logic and reasoning, but the negotiating side should know that Iran will never stop short of (moving in) the path of scientific development,” he added.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (also known as P5+1 and E3+3) are in talks to hammer out a final agreement to end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
The UN Security Council and a number of Western countries have imposed a series of sanctions on Iran, suspecting that its civilian nuclear program has been diverted to nuclear weapons production.
Tehran maintains that its uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes only.
Several rounds of nuclear talks have been held in the past, and the current negotiations between Iran and the six powers are aimed at securing a lasting accord by the end of July.