TEHRAN – Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator said on Wednesday that Iran’s five-point proposal will be discussed in negotiations between Tehran and the major powers which will start in Moscow on June 18.

 

“In the Moscow meeting the Islamic Republic of Iran’s proposed five-point package for cooperation and their proposal (major powers’ proposal) will be discussed,” Saeed Jalili told an open session of the new parliament.

   

Jalili also warned the West that if they make a “miscalculation” in their dialogue with Iran no positive result will be achieved. 

 

“They (Westerners) should not think that since negotiations have begun they can return to their past wrong path because if they make a miscalculation the negotiations will bear no fruit,” Saeed Jalili told the parliament. 

 

Negotiators from Iran and the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) are set to resume talks in Moscow on June 18-19.  

 

Jalili said if the West seeks “successful negotiations” they should follow the path of “dialogue-cooperation strategy” because the “language of threat” and the “strategy of pressure” on Iran will get them nowhere.

 

He added “power”, “logic”, and “initiative” form the cornerstone of Iran’s dialogue with the West. 

 

Jalili, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, went on to say that “Iran’s rights and commitments must be clearly defined and Iran will not accept to be regarded as an exception.”

 

Jalili also dismissed remarks by certain Western officials that time is running out for negotiations, saying, “What has reached an end is the strategy of pressure and the time for dialogue has just begun.”

 

NPT, the basis of dialogue

 

Jalili also went on to say that regional developments which demonstrated the influence of the Islamic Revolution, competitive elections in Iran and people’s massive turnout in polls, technological progresses as well as nuclear Iran’s ability to enrich uranium to the purity of 20 percent made the West to seek a resumption of negotiations with Iran after a 14-month hiatus since the Istanbul meeting in January 2011.

 

Jalili said during the meeting in Istanbul on April 14 the 5+1 group agreed that Non-Proliferation Treaty be the cornerstone of talks and non-nuclear issues to be discussed as well.