Raisi on Vienna talks: Good deal to be reached if sanctions removed
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi asserts that his country's strategy is to thwart the sanctions imposed on it, and considers that normalization will not bring security for normalizing states.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stressed Saturday that establishing relations with neighboring countries is a strategy for Iran's foreign policy and not a tactic.
Referring to the Vienna talks during a meeting held in Tehran with the Iranian ambassadors and envoys of the neighboring countries, Raisi stressed that "a good deal will be reached if the other side is determined to remove the sanctions."
The Iranian president pointed out that "the enemy's strategy is to keep the sanctions," while Iran's strategy is to neutralize them and take serious action to remove them.
Raisi criticized states that are normalizing ties with the Israeli occupation, and considered that "normalization will bring security for neither those states nor the Zionist regime."
Adviser in Iran's negotiating team, Seyyed Mohammad Marandi, confirmed today that the Europeans have changed their position slightly on the two drafts which the Iranians previously submitted.
Iran had presented two drafts in the first phase of the seventh round of the Vienna talks regarding its nuclear commitments and removal of sanctions. If Iran receives a positive response to the first and second drafts, it will provide a third draft on the verification of the lifting of sanctions.
The 7th round of the Vienna talks resumed Wednesday.
Iran's lead negotiator to the Vienna talks, Ali Bagheri Kani, reaffirmed that Tehran continues to deal with the talks in a serious manner.