5+1 group should avoid repeating mistakes: Iran's EC

TEHRAN, March 17 (MNA) -- Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has advised the 5+1 group to avoid repeating its previous mistakes.

“These countries (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) did not treat us well after the revolution and took inappropriate actions. Now there are new issues, such as the nuclear and missile issues… and they are intensifying their hostility, and I am confident that they are making a mistake. They will trouble themselves and us but will not gain anything,” Rafsanjani told reporters in Tehran on Wednesday.

He also said that Iran has always insisted that the Islamic Republic does not seek to produce nuclear weapons.

“The Leader has said that, and all officials have said that,” he noted.

If there are any doubts about Iran’s nuclear energy program, efforts should be made to address the problem, Rafsanjani said.

The Expediency Council chairman also stated that Iran does not seek anything beyond its own rights and neither should the 5+1 group.