Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the international powers negotiating with Tehran to curb its nuclear program have two choices: they can either reach a deal with Iran, or see its efforts for a “peaceful” atomic program accelerate.
The P5+1 “must either reach an agreement with Iran within the framework of logic and the international law and the sooner they do it, it’ll benefit everyone involved. Or else they will have to deny the facts and continue with their sanctions regime, in which scenario they will have to witness the faster progress of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program,” Rouhani is quoted as saying by the Mehr News Agency at a cabinet meeting today.
“The only one who is angry and upset about the course of negotiations is an occupying regime that sees its survival in war and invasion,” the Iranian president says, an apparent reference to Israel whose prime minister spoke to the US Congress on Tuesday to warn of the dangers of a bad deal with Iran, a country he described as a “threat to the entire world.”
Rouhani says that “people in the world, as well as the Americans, are much more perceptive than to trust the words of advice from a regime that has a long reputation for causing conflict and crisis.”
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