Itongadol.- Iran can ease western states’ concern over its nuclear activities if they fully recognize its right to operate a civilian nuclear program, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday, days before international talks in Kazakhstan.
If the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China “recognize our full rights for peaceful nuclear energy, this will show their goodwill,” Mehmanparast said at a press conference in Tehran that was aired by Iranian state television. “As for us, we will offer ways to remove concerns” that Iran’s nuclear program may have a military dimension.
“Proper measures” can be taken by both sides, though each step taken needs to be “equal and proportionate,” Mehmanparast said.
Iran is resuming stalled multilateral negotiations on its nuclear work with the group known as P5+1 on February 26 in Kazakhstan. The last round of talks between Iran and world powers were held in Moscow in June and failed to yield results. World powers asked the Islamic Republic to suspend production of 20 percent enriched uranium while Iran pressed for relief from financial and trade sanctions imposed because of its nuclear program.