"The upcoming meeting between the representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the members of the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) in Kazakhstan is an opportunity for the US or western countries' officials to build (Iran's) confidence and show their goodwill," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said in his weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
Mehman-Parast said that the US interference in Iran's internal affairs, continued enmity against the Iranian nation, exercising plots in the region and supporting the groups which act against Iran's national interests testify to the fact that the other side lacks goodwill.
He, meantime, said that there is no sign of the US changing its hostile behavior towards the Iranian nation, and said, "To respect our nation and other nations' rights, they (the US and the West) should adopt practical measures."
Iran's deputy chief negotiator Ali Baqeri and EU foreign policy deputy chief Helga Schmitt in a phone talk on February 5 agreed that the next round of talks between Tehran and the Group 5+1 be held in Kazakhstan on February 26.
The last round of talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany was held in Moscow in June.
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 Non-Proliferation Treaty (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 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
