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Responding to Netanyahu’s calls to maintain sanctions on Iran, leader alleges Israel finds itself in isolation

Iran’s deputy foreign minister last week said that his country made no commitment at the Geneva nuclear talks, adding that none of the country’s red lines are ever subject to negotiations.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi made the comments while briefing a parliamentary committee on the two-day discussions between Iran and the six powers — the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany — in Geneva on October 15-16.

Araqchi said in an interview with the Iranian channel Al-Alam Araqchi he regretted that some of the media in Iran have been influenced by the “Zionist game.”

“The entity occupying Jerusalem is not sparing any effort to undermine and place obstacles in the path of negotiations.”

Regarding details of the Tehran talks with the six world powers, Araqchi said, “What is published is not true and are guesses. The source of the invented details are the Zionists.”

The top Iranian nuclear negotiator said that the country’s proposal presented in the latest talks between Tehran and world powers was aimed at protecting Iranian rights to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

The defined goal is safeguarding Iran’s nuclear rights, both in terms of uranium enrichment and in fuel production field, Araqchi was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday accused Israel of trying to derail his efforts to build bridges with the West over his country’s unsanctioned uranium development program. The leader alleged it was the success of his diplomacy that has left Israel in isolation and forced it on the defensive.

Iranian state-controlled Press-TV quoted Rouhani as saying “Throughout the history of the Islamic Revolution, we have witnessed that whenever the Islamic establishment gets close to a success in the international political scene, the Zionist Israelis commit acts of sabotage … inside and outside (of Iran).”

Rouhani has also spoken in praise of his bout of “active diplomacy,” staking the claim that “The administration’s diplomatic initiative in constructive interaction with the world … has both made the (world) governments praise the democracy in Iran and halted the growing process of (imposing) sanctions (against Iran).”

Rouhani remarks were made on the heels of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s many statements to the effect that Iran’s newly found political moderation is not to be taken at face value, the two latest of which were delivered on Sunday.

“I think that in this situation as long as we do not see actions instead of words, the international pressure must continue to be applied and even increased,” Netanyahu told his cabinet ministers. “The greater the pressure, the greater the chance that there will be a genuine dismantling of the Iranian military nuclear program.”

Speaking to NBC, the leader said “I think the pressure has to be maintained on Iran, even increased on Iran, until it actually stops the nuclear program, that is, dismantles it,” warning against “any partial deal could end up in dissolving the sanctions.”

Drawing the analogy with Syria’s stated commitment to destroy its cache of toxic munitions, Netanyahu said “Suppose Syria said, ‘Well, you know, we’re going to dismantle 20 percent of it…. Nobody would buy that. That’s exactly what Iran is trying to do. They’re trying to give a partial deal that they know could end up dissolving the sanctions regime and would keep them with the nuclear weapons capabilities.”

According to an unnamed Israeli official cited by the Haaretz diplomatic correspondent, Barak Ravid, Israel is being kept closely informed by the United States and the UK regarding last week’s talks with Iran on its nuclear program. The bottom line to emerge from the reports is that the Iranians “are not willing to completely shut down their sites but they are willing to greatly restrict and limit them.”

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi addressed the talks in Geneva which he had attended and said, “The entity occupying Jerusalem is not sparing any effort to undermine and place obstacles in the path of negotiations.” In an interview with the Iranian channel Al-Alam Araqchi expressed regret that some of the media in Iran have been influenced by the “Zionist game.”

Regarding details of the Tehran talks with the six world powers, Araqchi said, “What is published is not true and are guesses. The source of the invented details are the Zionists.”

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