"The westerners should have new words," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Baqer Hosseini told FNA on Monday, and stressed that the western powers cannot expect Iran to halt its nuclear activities while they keep their previous stance.
He reminded that Iran suspended its 20% uranium enrichment program in a voluntary move a few years ago based on the demands of the western states and as a confidence-building measure, but it didn't receive good incentives and responses from them and it, thus, resumed its activities.
Hosseini underlined that uranium enrichment is Iran's inalienable right based on the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), while it is also a popular demand in Iran, "hence the country continues its enrichment activities".
In relevant remarks today, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi called on the western states that are due to attend talks with Iran in Kazakhstan on Tuesday to accept the realities and annul the sanctions they have imposed on Iran.
"I think that pragmatism of the Group 5+1 (the US, UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany) will help the negotiations succeed," Boroujerdi said in an interview with the Iran-based Arabic-language al-Alam TV channel, and added, "They should accept the realities."
He referred to Iran's astonishing progress, specially in the civilian nuclear technology, and said, the western powers can no more impose their will on the Iranian nation and force it to halt its nuclear program.
Boroujerdi said that if the G5+1 wants the suspension of Iran's 20% uranium enrichment program, it should annul all the international and unilateral sanctions against Tehran. Yet he underlined that this is his personal view and any decision in this regard should be adopted by Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) which is in charge of the nuclear dossier.
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 Almaty, 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.
