‘West must honor N-deal obligations’

An Iranian deputy foreign minister says the United States and the European members of the 5+1 group should honor their obligations under a nuclear deal with Iran.

According to Press TV, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi said: “We expect the Western states to avoid declaring stances that harm the progress of the nuclear talks and the agreements reached in Geneva.”
The Iranian official made the remarks in a Monday meeting with Finland’s Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja in Helsinki.
Takht-e-Ravanchi, who is also an Iranian nuclear negotiator, reaffirmed that the Islamic Republic had entered the negotiations with the G5+1 – Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany – with “goodwill.”
He noted that as acknowledged by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has fulfilled its commitments under the interim nuclear accord it signed with the six other countries in Geneva, Switzerland, last November.
The Finnish foreign minister, for his part, hailed the progress in the negotiations between Tehran and the G5+1, expressing hope that the two sides would reach a final nuclear deal as soon as possible. Iran and its negotiating partners have been holding talks in an effort to work out a permanent accord aimed at fully resolving the decade-old dispute over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.