Iran’s nuclear technology is for making progress, not threats: Iranian president

TEHRAN,Nov.11(MNA) – Iran is seeking to develop peaceful nuclear technology to achieve progress, not to use it as a threat to others, President Hassan Rouhani said. Others should be confident that “we want peaceful nuclear technology for development, not for threatening others; that we are seeking it for peaceful purposes not to build nuclear bombs,” Rouhani said in an address to the parliament on Sunday. “We will not cross the red lines. Our red line is the rights of the Iranian nation. These rights include nuclear rights within the framework of international law as well as (uranium) enrichment in Iran.” Iran and world major powers (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, known as the 5+1 group) held intensive negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday through Saturday, which were aimed at resolving the decade-old dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program. “We have practically and verbally told the negotiators that threat, sanctions, humiliation, and discrimination will not produce results, by any means,” Rouhani, a former nuclear negotiator, added. Rouhani also said that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not bow to any threat by any power, and underlined that global issues ought to be resolved merely through logic and rationality. Elsewhere in his remarks, Rouhani described the sanctions as illegal and inefficient and noted that Iran has not come to the negotiating table because of the sanctions. He also said that negotiations can pave the way for constructive interaction between Iran and the international community, adding that the world should know that regional issues would not be resolved without Iran’s involvement.