Tehran, YJC. Foreign Minister says the US has to do something about unrealistic people in its government because they are likely to damage the nuclear negotiations.
Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who was giving a report on his office’s first 100
days on the state TV said "Removing the lies and the terror which were spread
against Iran by the Zionist regime as well as the initial agreement made in Geneva
in the form of a mutual cooperation accord are the biggest achievements we made
in the first 100 days.”
Asked
why there are different interpretations of the Geneva agreement, especially by
the US, he said "In politics, and especially in the US, it is domestic concerns
that form policies.”
"There
is this American saying that goes all policies are domestic policies,” Zarif
said, adding "Americans are rather worried how to respond to domestic pressure,
which does not mean by the way that there is such concern by the American people.”
Pointing
to Obama’s recent statements in Saban Center he said "What the world realized
was that it was for the first time that in answer to a Zionist’s question why
he lets Iran continue the enrichment, Obama said if he had the option, he would
have liked it that not a single bolt would remain of the Iranian nuclear
program; but the Iranian nuclear program has turned into a reality.”
The
Foreign Minister maintained that the US government has accepted the fact for
few countries, including Indida. "Americans have admitted that Iran’s nuclear
program is a reality,” he asserted.
Zarif
added "It is true that Americans have accepted the fact, but in discourse they
still think that they can pursue their policies through sanctions and pressure.
Inside the US still there are people like the US Secretary of Treasury in whom
you can’t see even traces of realism. The US government must do something about
these cases, else the negotiations which are to lessen Iranians’ distrust will
be ruined by this man and some others in the US government.”
"What
we must pay attention to is the gray spectrum which was created not by US will,
but due to the attendance of the Iranian people at the elections. They cannot intimidate
the people of Iran,” he asserted.
Addressing
the US new list of entities under nuclear sanctions he said "If we look
realistically these is no violation of the agreement, because the people newly
added to the list, it is true that in their generality sanctions are illegal
and ineffective, but these are sanctions that come from the past and only new
people are added there.”
Pointing
to the Syrian crisis, Zarif stated "The Zionist lobby tried hard to drag the US
into war but people and the Congress said ‘no’. Mr. Obama also adopted another
approach which was not much in favor of war. The people of America are grown
tired of the Zionist lobby, which is why the lobby beats the drum for war.”