Iran ‘Won’t Give Up One Iota Of Nuclear Rights’: President Hassan Rowhani
Source: By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:07 EDT
Iran will not give up “one iota” of its nuclear rights, Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said in a speech to clerics, Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday.
Rowhani’s comments come ahead of a meeting in New York later in the month between his foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on restarting negotiations over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme.
“Our government will not give up one iota of its absolute rights” on the nuclear issue, Rowhani said, repeating a mantra frequently used by his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He also said that following the meeting between Zarif and Ashton, nuclear negotiations “will continue in another place with the 5+1 group,” which is made up of the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, but gave no further details.
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