Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Tehran and six the major world powers will have difficult negotiations in the Austrian capital, Vienna, next week.The top Iranian nuclear negotiator on Monday described the nations support for Irans team as very important.
The Iranian nations presence in rallies across the country to mark the 35th anniversary of the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution on Tuesday will be support for nuclear negotiations, he said.
Zarif added that the Iranian negotiating team would leave for Vienna on February 17 few days after the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and this is the reason that it needs the support of the nation.
The foreign minister emphasized that the Iranian people are the assets of the Islamic establishment.
Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council Russia, China, France, Britain and the US plus Germany are scheduled to hold the next round of talks in Vienna on February 18.
The meeting will come in light of the implementation of an interim nuclear deal between Iran and the six world powers which was clinched in the Swiss city of Geneva on November 24, 2013.
Under the deal, Iran agreed to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities as a confidence-building measure, and world powers undertook to provide Iran with some sanctions relief and release more than USD four billion of Tehrans oil revenues.
This reality is that Westerners and the Americans set aside their years-old claims and broke their redlines on [Irans] nuclear activities, Zarif said.
He added that the US and Western powers finally accepted Irans right to enrichment due to the resistance of the Iranian nation.
He further warned against statements by US officials and said, Such remarks will have no result but an increase of distrust of the Iranian nation.
The minister was reacting to US Secretary of State John Kerrys renewed threat of military action and allegations made by US top nuclear negotiator with Iran, Wendy Sherman, against Irans nuclear facilities.
In a testimony to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 4, Sherman, the US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and the Obama administrations top negotiator with Iran, questioned Irans need to maintain a number of its nuclear facilities.
By Press TV
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