“If the West is determined to deal honestly with Iran in this round of negotiations, it must first lift all the anti-Iranian sanctions and resolutions,” Javad Jahangirzadeh, member of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said Sunday.
The lawmaker added that the West and member states of the P5+1 - Britain, France, the US, China, and Russia plus Germany - have reached the conclusion that Iran's peaceful nuclear activities pose no threat to them, but they are still trying to mount pressures on Iran.
Jahangirzadeh stated that it is still too early to judge the future outlook of Moscow talks.
“If the output of talks is not in Iran's favor or Western parties deny Iran's inalienable nuclear rights, the West will certainly hit closed doors again,” he said.
The lawmaker added that the Iranian negotiators have behaved rationally in the past negotiations with the P5+1.
“If in these negotiations which will be held in Moscow tomorrow, certain members [of the P5+1] take a radical approach to talks [with Iran], they will be the losers of the negotiations,” he said.
Earlier on Sunday, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili arrived in Moscow, reiterating that Iran's rights in the area of nuclear technology, including the right to enrich uranium, must be recognized and respected.
“We view this round of talks with optimism,” said the senior Iranian official, adding that the most important agenda in the upcoming negotiations is to follow up on the proposals presented during the Baghdad talks and try to come to a consensus and make progress.
Iran and the P5+1 restarted multifaceted talks, which also focus on the country’s Iran's nuclear energy program, in Istanbul on April 14, 2012, after a 15-month interruption.
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