Iran top general hails nuclear success in talks with P5+1
A senior Iranian military official has heaped praise on the country’s negotiating team for emerging successful in talks with the P5+1 group in Switzerland, expressing hope that a final agreement would be reached soon.
In a message to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Sunday, Iranian Armed Forces' Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said the 1979 Islamic Revolution's progressive movement is continuing “strongly and successfully” thanks to the Leader’s guidelines.
He congratulated Ayatollah Khamenei and the Iranian nation on the breakthrough and praised efforts by President Hassan Rouhani and Iran's nuclear negotiating team led by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
The top general added that the Iranian negotiators managed to take “another step in restoring the absolute rights" of the Islamic Republic in the peaceful nuclear energy sector.
Firouzabadi gave assurances that the nuclear talks will continue to reach a final conclusion in the interest of the Iranian nation under the aegis of the Leader’s guidelines.
Iran and the P5+1 states – the US, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany – issued a joint statement at the end of eight days of sensitive nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Lausanne on April 2.
Iran and the six global powers will work to draw up a final accord by the end of the self-designated June 30 deadline.
According to the statement, no Iranian nuclear facility will be shut down or suspended while all sanctions against the Islamic Republic will be terminated.
Based on the joint statement, Iran's Fordow nuclear facility will be turned into a research center for nuclear science and physics. It also said the heavy water reactor in the Iranian city of Arak will remain in place, but will be redesigned and upgraded.
Iran will implement the Additional Protocol temporarily and voluntarily in line with its confidence-building measures and after that the protocol will be ratified within a time frame by the Iranian government and Parliament (Majlis).
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