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Rouhani: Iran will not capitulate in name of negotiations

24 July 2019 15:13 (UTC +04:00)

President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Iran will never capitulate in the name of negotiations, APA reports citing IRNA.

Rouhani made the remarks in his speech to a cabinet session. He said that as long as he is still in office, his government remains ready for fair, legal and respectful negotiations to find a settlement to problems. The Iranian government has never missed the chance of negotiations and will never do so in the future, the president said, however, noting that the country is never willing to capitulate at the table of negotiations.

“Over the past several weeks, we were witnessing diplomatic movements both in our country and in Europe and the other countries,” President Rouhani said. He said that signing a landmark nuclear deal with world powers on July 14, 2015 raised Iran’s oil exports from 1 million bpd to 2.8 million bpd.

The multinational accord unfroze a large amount of Iranian assets so that many Iranian commodities which were frozen in foreign customs were released and allowed to come into Iran, the president said. The US withdrew from Iran nuclear deal in May 2018 without any reason imagining that Iran would also exit the deal the next day preparing the ground for the international sanctions to be re-imposed subsequently, Rouhani stated.

He said that Iran did not seriously care about the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action until it could sell its oil. However, he said that as soon as they imposed sanctions on Iran’s oil, the situation changed so that Iran decided to reduce some of its commitments to the JCPOA.