The Iranian president said Iran’s enemies have created two crises. “First, they accused us and said we are after nuclear weapons; and second, they created a wrong mechanism to cripple our banking system, to prevent foreign investment in the country and to impede purchases, exports and sales,” he said.
President Rouhani explained that, during the nuclear negotiations with the P5+1, Iran is seeking to achieve two objectives. The first, he said, is to “remove the accusations.”
“We want to prove to the world that those wishing us ill lied to the world; Iran has been after peaceful [nuclear] technology and not building a destructive bomb that - based on the fatwa by Leader [of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei] - is forbidden for us,” President Rouhani said.
He was referring to the religious decree issued by Ayatollah Khamenei on February 22, 2012, banning the possession and use of nuclear weapons as “a grave sin” from every logical, religious and theoretical standpoint.
President Rouhani said Iran’s second objective in the nuclear talks is to have the sanctions imposed against Iran removed.
He further expressed hope for the conclusion of a final agreement between Iran and the P5+1, saying, “If the opposite side shows serious determination,” a final deal will be possible within the next few months.
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