'We don't intend to withdraw even one step from (our advancements in) the nuclear technology, but we want to grow active in legal grounds; we don't retreat from our scientists' achievements, rather we want to step in political areas to bring transparency to the world public opinion,' Rouhani said, addressing a ceremony held here in Tehran on Sunday to unveil three new medical achievements of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
He reminded the failure of the western states, including the US, Germany and France, in meeting their promises and fulfilling their undertakings to help Iran in developing its peaceful nuclear technology after the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1980), and said those days Iran wanted to produce fuel for its Tehran research reactor but no state or official market agreed to provide the necessary equipment, including centrifuges, to Iran and the country was obliged to construct buildings and centrifuges only through the efforts of its own scientists.
Rouhani blasted the western media and officials for their media hype and propaganda against Tehran's efforts to gain self-sufficiency in manufacturing the tools and equipment that it needs for developing its civilian nuclear program, and said, 'They alleged that Iran has been secretly working on its nuclear program for 20 years, while on the basis of the (IAEA and NPT) rules and regulations, the country was not obliged to inform them of its activities before injecting the UF6 gas into its centrifuges.'
He said Iran has made excellent progress in area of nuclear science in recent decades, but its advancement in this field was eventually faced with problems because the country couldn't conduct a proper counterattack against the enemies' smear campaign in areas of politics and propaganda.
'And now we want to make a move in legal and political grounds to enlighten the world public opinion,' the Iranian president stressed, cautioning that if Iran only suffices to scientific progress and makes no move in legal and political grounds, then 'the enemies will misuse the opportunity to trouble the country's progress'.
He underlined the Iranian government's intention to continue all scientific activities based on the international laws, and said, 'All the westerners, easterners and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) countries should know this position and decision of the government.'
Rouhani said that Iran has nothing, but 'transparency' in its nuclear activities to put on the negotiating table with the G5+1, and stressed that Iran's progress is no subject to deal or compromise. 'The path of our progress is not on the table for us to make a deal; progress is, rather, part of our nation's will and our scientists' brains.'
'What we can present to the world public opinion is more transparency as well as legal measures and propaganda alongside (progress in) technology,' he added.
President Rouhani said if the current talks ends in a deal, the western states should avoid new propaganda and avoid claiming that they have prevented the country from building a nuclear bomb through their talks. 'The point is that Iran does not want atomic weapons. The Iranian nation doesn't see the nuclear weapons as to be legitimate', an issue clearly declared in a Fatwa (religious decree) issued by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
His remarks were made as Iran and the G5+1 are due to kick off a new round of talks in Vienna on May 14.
Deputy chief negotiators from Iran and the sextet wrapped up their last round of talks in Vienna on April 9. The talks were headed by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi and EU foreign policy deputy chief Helga Schmidt.
The talks started on April 8 by a session presided by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the UN headquarters in Vienna, and continued by a meeting among the deputy chief negotiators of the seven nations.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry in a statement on April 8 reiterated that its team of negotiators would not discuss any topic but the country's nuclear standoff with the West in its talks with the six world powers.
The talks between Tehran and the G5+1 are part of efforts to seal a final deal on Iran's nuclear energy program.
Iran and the Group 5+1 representatives had several sessions of talks in Vienna on March 18-19 too. Following the breakthrough interim agreement between Iran and the six powers, the two sides accepted to send their senior negotiating teams to monthly meetings to discuss a final and comprehensive deal until July. If the seven nations fail to agree on a final deal by then, the Geneva interim agreement will be extended for another 6 months.
On November 24, Iran and the Group 5+1 sealed a six-month Joint Plan of Action to lay the groundwork for the full resolution of the West's decade-old dispute with Iran over the latter's nuclear energy program.
In exchange for Tehran's confidence-building bid to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities, the sextet of the world powers agreed to lift some of the existing sanctions against Tehran and impose no nuclear-related sanctions on Iran during the six-month period.
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