Marzieh Afkham who was speaking in her weekly press conference on Tuesday told reporters that the negotiations to be started in Vienna were the ultimate step for a comprehensive solution. “Ashton and Zarif’s working dinner session was a prelude to talks today,” added Afkham.
“The negotiations would be several steps, the first step being arrangements to hammer out an agreement palatable to both sides,” she said, and believed that the negotiations would be ‘long and complex, and that the path should be trodden with great care and attention.
She believed that it was improper to expect an outcome from this or other future rounds of talks. “Today’s discussion would address a certain framework for talks proper, and we hope talks would have some tangible outcomes,” she asserted.
Asked by Mehr News correspondent about the FM remarks who had said that the negotiations would not discuss Iran’s military and ballistic missiles, while the US officials had emphasized quite the contrary, including in the negotiations shutting down of Arak heavy water complex as well, and what would be Iran’s possible response, Afkham told that the ministry had said before that no military issue would be accepted by Iran to be addressed in the talks.
“We think the propagandist approach is rejected and we would insist on our sensitivities,” she said.
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