Leader played ‘more effective role’ in nuclear talks

Hassan Rouhani was speaking to cabinet’s Wednesday session, and touched upon nuclear deal hit yesterday in Vienna between Iran and the 5+1. President Rouhani dubbed the nuclear deal ‘a special page’ of Iran’s history, since he believed, “the deal turned the tides for Iran, effectively changing the inaccurately conceived image of the country since the Revolution by western public opinion; they had always viewed Iran as a threat and an unpredictable country,” Rouhani told the meeting. “They would not assume that Iran’s power would be effectively used to bring stability to the region and solve international and regional issues; they just had been seeking to find out what Iran was doing,” he added.

“In painting the image of a country which was seen a threat and source of instability, which also brought Iran’s nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council, enemies attempts on spreading false information and biased analysis had been effective; the resolutions approved by the UN Security Council kept at bay even our most powerful allies,” Rouhani said, “public turnout in 2013 presidential elections sought to bring to surface the most important and pressing issue as nuclear issue,” he added.

He extended gratitude to nuclear negotiators whom he described as ‘very committed, experienced, and technically able,’ whom had been indispensable for best and longest negotiation ever. “World powers saw sanctions and coercion unavailing, and they found ultimately that the road taken by them was teeming with perils and dangers to their national interests; so, they could not do anything without resort to negotiation,” Rouhani emphasized.

“The sense of unity and solidarity in the society would only come to fruition with Leader’s support and guidelines; we would not have been at this point if his help and heartening advice were not,” he expressed his gratitude to Leader of the Islamic Republic.

Rouhani extended his commendations to the whole negotiation team, who sat vis-à-vis six world powers to negotiate with which would be demanding and energy-depleting; “now, no country would assume that Iran had given in the negotiations; rather, they saw clearly that Iran is a level to solve its own problems with the world; the least achievement of the deal is that it demonstrated Iran as of huge negotiation abilities, and it definitely is a political, technical and legal success for us,” president concluded.