At the ceremony on Tuesday, Kamalvandi, also AEOI chief, said “Iran has the right to peaceful nuclear technology.”
He pointed out that the Western countries had incompletely abandoned their work after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
“We can’t rely solely on fossil fuels for energy,” the Vice-Chairperson of AEOI said elsewhere.
“The US Secretary of State was wrong because countries like the Netherlands, Belgium, South Korea, Brazil and Japan are also enriching without nuclear weapons,” he continued to clearly point to Marco Rubio’s recent remarks that he said were not supposed to have nuclear enrichment and could import abundant uranium from overseas.
Iran and the United States held three consultations in Rome’s Oman capital on April 12, 19 and 26 with the aim of reaching a deal on Iran’s nuclear program and the elimination of sanctions in Tehran. The consultations will be mediated by the government of Omani.
The parties have so far expressed satisfaction with the way negotiations are underway and praised the consultation as “positive” and “moving forward.”
The fourth round of the speech was scheduled to take place in Rome on May 3, but was postponed due to “logistical and technical reasons” cited by the Iranian Foreign Minister.
MNA