“Majority of Iranians want peace and reconciliation” – defended nuclear negotiator team
Tehran – The period of political hardliners in Iran is according to the words as a moderate force President Hassan Rohani end. “We want to solve our problems with foreign countries only by means of arguments and negotiations,” he said on Tuesday. The majority of Iranians had for a reconciliation with the world, stressed the President of the Islamic Republic.
Rohani said in a televised speech, apart from a “small minority” who speak with a loud voice, was his people for “peace, reconciliation and a constructive agreement” with the rest of the world. Rohani defended against this background the ongoing negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program with the UN veto powers and Germany. But there is “a small minority” who seek to prevent this change of direction.
Wen he exactly he meant, not Rohani said. However, the last word in all strategic issues has revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran. The spiritual leader of the country supported the negotiations in the core, although he refuses inspections of military bases by international inspectors. A portion of the die-hards also provides too many concessions to the West. Rohani said to the “strong” Iran’s nuclear negotiating team in corporate daily important steps “to safeguard the rights of the nation”.
Zarif accused “people’s betrayal”
Opponents of a more conciliatory foreign policy had sharply criticized particular Rohanis nuclear policy in the past few days. His foreign minister and negotiator at the nuclear talks with the West, Mohammad Javad Zarif, accused a deputy even “folk betrayal” before. Zarif said to have the West promised inspections of military facilities, complained representatives a hard line. Ayatollah Khamenei rejects the in accordance with the Revolutionary Guards and the hardliners in parliament Strongly. In particular, however, the United States insist on comprehensive inspections in Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran and the five UN veto powers and Germany (5 + 1) wish to conclude more than twelve years of negotiations on limiting Iran’s nuclear program successfully until the end of June. The interlocutors had early April agreed on key elements of an agreement on resolving the nuclear dispute. This should allow Iran the peaceful use of nuclear technology and at the same time prevent the development of nuclear weapons.
The agreement provides for far-reaching cuts in nuclear program as well as a significant expansion of international controls. Once Iran has complied with its main obligations, the sanctions against Tehran should be repealed. The discussions on a definitive agreement were continued on Tuesday in Vienna.
Trial against correspondent of “Washington Post”
The trial of the last ten months in prison in Iran US reporter Jason Rezaian was opened and then adjourned Also on Tuesday. Iran correspondent of the “Washington Post” spying for the US and propaganda against the Islamic country are accused. The process behind closed doors also dealt with Rezaians wife, the journalist Yeganeh Salehi, as well as an Iranian-American photographer. The three were arrested in late July last year. The two women were released on bail, since Rezaian sits in the notorious Evin prison in the north of the Iranian capital.
The foreign press was the access to the revolutionary court, which is mainly responsible for espionage processes denied.Therefore, it remained unclear even after the trial, which is said to have spied Rezaian exactly. Rezaian is indeed accused of being a correspondent of an American newspaper, but the procedure is the same as with an Iranian journalist. (APA, 26.5.2015)