Iran has specified time for confidence building and negotiations
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Dec 5, IRNA
Iran-Nuclear Program-Larijani
Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani said on Monday that Iran has decided to wait for specified time for negotiations and confidence building with the international community about nuclear program and would go ahead with enrichment after elapse of this period.
He told reporters that Iranian strategy for confidence building is to ensure no diversion from civilian application of Iranian nuclear program.
Answering a question raised by Agence France Presse (AFP) about Israeli threat to attack Iran, Larijani said that Iran does not take Israeli rhetoric seriously.
"This is not the first time we hear rhetoric from Israel. They used to make such rhetoric and then calmed down very quickly." "If Netanyahu makes such a mistake, he should tolerate consequences and this will add to Israeli problems. Iraq had been weakened when Israel attacked it."
"On the other hand, situation in Israel is not in a way to allow Israelis to follow the theory of 'from Nile to Euphrates'. They well know that how the theory worked in the past several years. Every day is passing by they are forced to back down on their unjust demands.
They were forced to withdraw from Gaza and those who have so many problems can only embark on rhetoric," Larijani said.
Elaborating on why Iran could not agree to uranium enrichment taking place outside the country, he said that the nuclear technology is expensive and it is not right to set up a plant outside the country and then transfer it to Iran after several years.
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