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28 January 2015 - 12:39

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined that the country will no way surrender to the pressures exerted by the world powers and will continue the path of progress with no pause or hesitation.

"With its enthusiastic and more extensive presence and partnership in this year's ceremonies of the Ten-Day Dawn (marking the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution on February 11, 1979), the great Iranian nation will show this year, like the past, that it is not exhausted under the pressures exerted by others and it will not bow," Rouhani said, addressing a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday.

He underlined that the Iranian nation will continue its progress and development through his government's efforts and guidelines of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.

In relevant remarks in 2013, Rouhani underscored that sanctions on Iran by the West couldn’t undermine the country's resolve, adding that the Iranian nation was determined to resist against political and economic pressures.

“The West must understand that it will not achieve success through sanctions and pressures against the Iranian nation,” the Iranian president said.

“If the West uses the language of logic, reason and mutual interests on an equal footing, the Iranian administration is also ready to respond in the language of wisdom, prudence and logic,” Rouhani underlined.

Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad. Tehran also stresses that the country is pursuing a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic.

Iran is under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment, saying the demand is politically tainted and illogical.

Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.

Iran has been in talks with the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) for over a year to reach a comprehensive agreement to settle its nuclear dispute with the West.

The 10th round of negotiations between Iran and the six world powers was held in Vienna from November 18 to 24, where the seven nations decided to extend the talks until July after they failed to strike an agreement.

The latest round of the nuclear talks between the two sides was held at the level of deputy foreign ministers in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 18.

The two sides decided to continue their talk early in February.

Both Iran and the G5+1 negotiators have underlined that cutting a final deal before the July 10 deadline is possible.

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