Iran's top negotiator in talks with the world powers Saeed Jalili said that Tehran will not accept the conditions that the US aims to impose on the Iranian nation in the nuclear issue.

Jalili, who is in New Delhi on an official visit, said the US cannot impose its arbitrary "less rights and more obligations" model on the Iranian nation in the nuclear issue.

He said stated that to serve its interests not only does the US violate the rights of others, but also violates its claims about democracy and free trade by meddling in the internal affairs of other countries and the imposition of unilateral sanctions.

Jalili meantime underlined that Tehran welcomes the readiness of the six major world powers to hold constructive talks with Iran.

"Just as Iran feels obligated to act within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regulations and in line with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is adamant on asserting its rights within the same framework," he said on Wednesday.

The G5+1 (the US, Britain, Franc, Russia and China plus Germany) is preparing for new talks with Iran over its nuclear program most probably in January.

The talks would be the first high-level negotiations over Iran's nuclear program since June, offering at least the prospect of a thaw in a standoff that has grown increasingly tense in recent months.

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the NPT entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.

Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
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