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Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi said that his country pursues a balanced foreign policy in relations with the world states, stressing that Iran’s progress does not depend on developments in New York or Vienna.
Iran still abides by the Islamic Revolution ideals, President Rayeesi said during the Friday prayers at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla (congregational prayers site).
His comments came as ralliers in Tehran and other Iranian cities gathered to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revvolution.
He added that his administration is still following “Neither West Nor East” foreign policy as designed by the revolution.
“In our foreign policy, we seek balanced relations with the world and attach special importance to neighboring countries” Rayeesi said.
“We pin hope on our people,” he added, noting that “we never pin hope on either New York or Vienna”.
Turning to the slogans of the Islamic Revolution, President Rayeesi said, “What the Islamic Revolution is echoing is freedom, morality, rationality and justice and these slogans are still alive.”
The Islamic Revolution came to being under the wise leadership of late Imam Khomeini to overthrow the corrupt and foreign-backed regime of Shah and to establish a system based on religion, according to the president.
Salient characteristics of the Islamic Revolution should be taught to the new generations, Rayeesi said, adding that identifying elements of the Islamic Revolution must be accurately identified.
He then pointed to the ongoing negotiations between Iran and world powers in the Austrian capital of Vienna, and stated, “We cannot pin our hope on the result of negotiations since the US and western parties have breached their promises repeatedly so that they cannot be trusted at all.”
Envoys from Iran and the G4+1 group of countries — Britain, France, Russia, and China plus Germany — have been holding negotiations in the Austrian capital for 10 months in a bid to resurrect the JCPOA.
The eighth round of the talks resumed last Tuesday after a brief pause during which the negotiators returned to their capitals for consultations.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani warned on Monday that the Vienna talks between Iran and the world powers may not end up in a deal if the US remains adamant to removing all cruel sanctions imposed on Tehran under the maximum pressure campaign.
“The agenda for the Iranian negotiators to continue the eighth round of Vienna Talks has been carefully defined. An agreement in which the sanctions that form the maximum pressure are not lifted will condition the country’s economy and cannot be the basis of a good deal,” Shamkhani wrote on his twitter page.
Reports said earlier this month that the Biden administration has restored a nuclear cooperation sanctions waiver to Iran, a senior State Department official said.
The waiver, which was rescinded by the Trump administration in May 2020, had allowed Russian, Chinese and European companies to carry out non-proliferation work at Iranian nuclear sites.
The move came as Iran has been requesting removal of economic sanctions.
Shamkhani reacted to the news by saying that Iran has the right to a peaceful nuclear program.
“Iran’s legal right to continue research and development and to maintain its peaceful nuclear capabilities and achievements, along with its security against supported evils, cannot be restricted by any agreement,” he tweeted.
Iranian senior analyst Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm also discredited the US move, describing it as a deceitful measure aimed at prioritizing nuclear debates over economic sanctions in the Vienna talks.
In a reply tweet to a post left by the Russian representative at the Vienna negotiations, Mikhail Ulyanov who had welcomed the US waivers as a step forward, Khoshcheshm said the US continues its game against Iran and its recent move shouldn’t be interpreted as softening tone.
