Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and senior negotiator in talks with the world powers Majid Takht Ravanchi expressed pleasure that the western countries have admitted Tehran’s right to use its home-grown nuclear program for peaceful purposes.

After the Geneva deal (struck between Iran and the world powers), the enemy has admitted that Iran has the right to pursue a domestic nuclear program for peaceful purposes, Takht Ravanchi said in Tehran on Wednesday.

Continuation of Iran’s enrichment activity is another achievement of the Geneva deal, he added.

On November 24, Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) sealed the six-month Joint Plan of Action to lay the groundwork for the full resolution of the West’s decade-old dispute with Iran over its nuclear energy program.

In exchange for Tehran’s confidence-building bid to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities, the Sextet of world powers agreed to lift some of the existing sanctions against Tehran and continue talks with the country to settle all problems between the two sides.

Iran and the six world powers ended a third round of expert-level talks in Geneva, Switzerland, last Tuesday in a bid to devise mechanisms to implement the interim nuclear deal struck in November.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and senior negotiator Seyed Abbas Araqchi and EU Deputy Foreign Policy Chief Helga Schmidt are due to hold a decisive meeting in Geneva on Thursday and Friday.

The meeting between Araqchi and Schmidt will be held to finalize the expert and implementation stages of the Geneva agreement after the experts talks were held in Geneva between Tehran and the Group 5+1.
 

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