Tehran, YJC. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the country is prepared to accept a rational and fair nuclear deal which is based on mutual respect and interest.
In a letter to his counterparts on Wednesday, Zarif briefed them on the
latest developments in the negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Iran
and the Six Majors on Iran’s nuclear program.
He wrote, "My delegation has been engaged in these talks with the firm mandate
and strong political will to reach a comprehensive agreement. We have clearly
demonstrated that we are prepared to accept a rational and fair agreement based
on mutual respect and interest, in the same manner as we resist and reject
arbitrary, degrading and unlawful demands. We have tried to be creative and
innovative and have offered solutions.”
The Iranian foreign minister further noted "In our Joint Plan of Action, we
envisaged a common goal for these negotiations: To reach a mutually-agreed long
term comprehensive solution that would ensure Iran’s nuclear program will be
'exclusively peaceful' and 'would produce the comprehensive lifting of all UN
Security Council sanctions, as well as multilateral and national sanctions related
to Iran’s nuclear program.”
His letter also wrote "Achieving the first objective is not difficult, because
Iran does not want or need nuclear weapons. In our view, nuclear weapons are
obsolete tools of the past, incapable of providing external security or
internal stability. This is especially the case for Iran, which is content with
its size, geography, natural resources and human capital, and has not started a
single war in the past three centuries. A sober strategic assessment will show
that nuclear weapons are detrimental to Iran’s security.”
In his letter he also added "Iran also has a solid track record of opposing all
WMDs on religious grounds. Ayatollah Khamenei, like his predecessor Imam
Khomeini, declared that all WMDs are strictly forbidden by Islam. For this
reason, Iran did not use chemical weapons even in retaliation when Saddam
Hussein gassed our troops and civilians on a scale not seen since the First
World War.”