Zarif slams Obama’s remarks on Iran’s nuclear actvity

TEHRAN, Mar. 04 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister dismissed US President Barack Obama's recent remarks on Iran as unacceptable, underlining that Tehran will not give in to excessive demands by the other side in the nuclear negotiations. In response to Obama’s remarks, Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed to Iran’s honesty in nuclear talks with 5+1, stressing that it will continue the negotiations until restoring its true nuclear rights and will never surrender to other side’s greed and excessive demands. Zarif, who is in Montreux, Switzerland to hold nuclear talks, said Obama’s recent remarks clearly reflected the fact that US had finally concluded that its direct and indirect military threats and imposing outrageous and illegal sanctions against Iran were failed policies against Iran’s determination to achieve peaceful nuclear technology. Criticizing Obama’s recent comments, Zarif said, US President Obama has made the remarks clearly in the form of unacceptable and threatening rhetoric to win the US public opinion and counter the propaganda campaign by Israeli regime’s Prime Minister and other radical opposition groups who are against nuclear talks with Iran. In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Obama said Iran should commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years, if it seeks a comprehensive final deal over its nuclear program. Stressing US-Israel common interests, Obama said there was a 'substantial disagreement' between his administration and the Israeli government over how to achieve their shared goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “If, in fact, Iran is willing to agree to double-digit years of keeping their program where it is right now and, in fact, rolling back elements of it that currently exist ... if we’ve got that, and we’ve got a way of verifying that, there’s no other steps we can take that would give us such assurance that they don’t have a nuclear weapon," Obama told Reuters. The US goal is to make sure "there's at least a year between us seeing them try to get a nuclear weapon and them actually being able to obtain one," Obama said.