TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's new President-elect Hassan Rouhani will launch a new version of interaction with the West, but his offer won't include a suspension of Iran's nuclear activities, a senior lawmaker said Tuesday."The point raised by President-elect Rouhani in his press conference meant that Iran's nuclear diplomacy (during his term) won't be similar to that of the last4 years, while it will include interaction(with the opposing sides) which won't be based on the possibility of suspension (of Iran's nuclear activities) either," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mehdi Sanayee told FNA on Tuesday.
SanayeesaidRouhani will soon define a new discourse for interactions and understanding with the West.
Earlier this month, Rouhani in his first press conference as Iran's president-elect said Iran would not suspend its nuclear activities during his tenure, but meantime underlined that Tehran and the West can build each other's trust in other ways.
"The era of suspension is gone and now we are in such special conditions that I do believe we have abundant ways to build (each other's) confidence," Rouhani said earlier this month after winning June 14 election.
He further reminded Iran's agreement with the three European countries over Tehran's nuclear program in 2005 when he was in charge of Iran's team of negotiators in nuclear talks with the West, and said, "In 2005, we came to a final agreement in talks with (French President) Mr. Jacque Chirac on how to build international confidence in Iran's enrichment activities and this agreement could be the final solution."
"The Germans acquiesced in the agreement, but Britain, under the US pressure, refrained from cooperation and the job was left unfinished."
Rouhani said there are many ways to build international confidence in Iran's nuclear activities, including the same agreement that he, as Iran's top negotiator and Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary, struck with Chirac in the 2005 negotiations.
Rouhani was the Supreme Leader's representative and the secretary of SNSC from 1989 to 2005 and, hence, led the Iranian team of negotiators in nuclear talks with the world powers for 16 years.
Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad. Tehran also stresses that the country is pursuing a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic.
Iran is under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment, saying the demand is politically tainted and illogical.
Iran has so far ruled out halting or limiting its nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives, saying that renouncing its rights under the NPT would encourage the world powers to put further pressure on the country and would not lead to a change in the West's hardline stance on Tehran.
By Fars News
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