On Sunday, Larijani slammed Obama for seeking to get concessions from Iran by putting pressure on the Islamic Republic in Tehran's nuclear talks with the P5+1 group of world power – Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany – over its peaceful nuclear program.
Obama’s “weakness” and “domestic challenges” prevent him from making a “wise” decision on Iran’s nuclear work despite the “logical flexibility” shown by the Islamic Republic in the course of the nuclear discussions, added the top Iranian parliamentarian.
The US president wants Iran to give into irrelevant demands or the negotiations to fail, said the top Iranian lawmaker, adding, “Obama imagines he can impose the cost of his weaknesses in dealing with domestic issues on the Iranian side.”
Obama should come to the understanding that the Iranian nation will never give in and that his “erroneous polices” would be to blame if the nuclear negotiations fail to yield result, Larijani added.
Iran and the P5+1 have been holding talks to secure a final comprehensive deal over Iranian nuclear work.
Since an interim deal was agreed in the Swiss city of Geneva in November 2013, the negotiating sides have missed two self-imposed deadlines to ink a final agreement.
Iran and the P5+1 countries now seek to reach a high-level political agreement by March 1 and to confirm the full technical details of the accord by July 1.
