World powers gave no ground to Iran at negotiations in Almaty last month and only recognized some of Tehran's rights, the Islamic republic's supreme leader said Thursday.
World powers gave no ground to
Iran
at negotiations
in Almaty last month and only recognized some of
Tehran
's
rights, the Islamic republic's supreme leader said Thursday.
"At the [Feb. 26-27] meeting, the Westerners did nothing of importance
that could be termed a gesture," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on his
website. "All they did was recognize a part of the rights of
Iran
"
to develop nuclear energy.
He said the next meeting, due to take place on April 5-6 in the Kazakh city,
would "help gauge the sincerity" of world powers.
Iran
held
talks with the five United Nations Security Council permanent members--the
U.S.
,
China
,
Russia
, the
U.K.
and
France--plus
Germany
on
its controversial nuclear program.
The meeting saw the group offer
Iran
a
softening of non-oil or financial sector-related sanctions in exchange for
concessions over the country's uranium enrichment operations.
"Some of the points raised in their [the world powers'] response were more
realistic, compared with what they said in the past," chief Iranian
negotiator Saeed Jalili said at the time.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad later added that "negotiations are better
than confrontation," while Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said
"things are taking a turning point."
Western powers suspect
Iran
's
nuclear program to be a cover for building an atomic weapons capability, a
charge which
Iran
denies.
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