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Rowhani: Iran, European reach agreement to voluntary suspension of uranium enrichment

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Nov 15, IRNA -- Secretary of the Supreme National Security 
Council (SNSC) Hassan Rowhani here on Monday attended a press 
conference on the recent agreement between Iran and the European 
Union on Iran`s nuclear program. 
In response to a question posed on whether he is optimistic about 
the future of these negotiations, Rowhani said when the negotiations 
are serious and genuine it will not result in failure. 
"The Europeans call on us to continue the enrichment process in a 
way not to lead to the production of nuclear weapons, this is not a 
complicated issue, we call on the IAEA as well as the Non-Aligned 
movement to assure the global community that this will be guaranteed,"
he underlined. 
"It is not possible to judge whether these negotiations will 
result to failure or not," he said adding that it is quite evident 
that there is no major obstacle on the way. 
In response to a question posed by Al-Jazeera TV network about 
whether the US is the main and back room power for such negotiations, 
he said the US as the main power that has created many problems up to 
now and it is them who has always prevented the issue from being 
resolved. 
"We should exercise vigilance to see what would be US reactions to
the issue," he said adding that as a first move, President Bush has 
not shown any negative reaction. 
"We have to wait and see whether in the upcoming IAEA Board of 
Governors there would be any under-the-table dealings between the US 
and the Europeans or the Europeans have entered the negotiations with 
sincerity," he said. 
"In my opinion, President Bush should adopt a different attitude 
in his second term of his presidency," he said. 
On issues of Iraq, he said the agreement proves that the Europeans
believe in close cooperation with Iran in reconstruction of war 
shattered country despite of all allegation against Iran, the 
Europeans believe Iran can play a positive role in the future of Iraq.
Both Iran and Europe agreed to closely cooperate in campaign 
against terrorism, he said. 
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