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Wednesday 7 August 2013 17:50
Rouhani: Iran holds political will to resolve nuclear issue
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated the country holds the political determination to settle the nuclear issue.
Rouhani: Iran holds political will to resolve nuclear issue
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TEHRAN (Asremrooz):"Nuclear solution needs political will," Rouhani told a press conference, adding, "The issue is clear. I as the president of the Iran declare that the Islamic Republic of Iran has a serious and political will to settle the issue through protecting the rights of the Iranian people."

He further added the country will take into consideration concerns of the other party, as expressing the hope that the other side would have the required political will for gaining positive results in short term.

Iran is under three 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 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would encourage world powers to put further pressure on the country and would not lead to a change in the West's hardline stance on Tehran.

Iran has also insisted that it would continue enriching uranium because it needs to provide fuel to a 300-megawatt light-water reactor it is building in the Southwestern town of Darkhoveyn as well as its first nuclear power plant in the Southern port city of Bushehr.

Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.

Analysts believe that the US is at loggerheads with Iran due mainly to the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.
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