Iran said on Saturday it will not go beyond its obligations or accept anything outside its rights under the non-proliferation treaty (NPT), ahead of talks with major powers on its disputed nuclear drive.
“We will not accept anything beyond our obligations and will not accept anything less than our rights,” said the Islamic republic’s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, quoted by ISNA news agency.
“Iran has fulfilled its NPT obligations as an active and committed member, therefore [it] should gain all of its rights,” Jalili said in an address to Iranian nuclear industry officials.
His remarks come ahead of a meeting between Iran and six world powers - Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany - in Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
The talks will be the first between the parties since three rounds of meetings in Moscow ended in stalemate last June.
The so-called P5+1 has called on Iran to scale back on uranium enrichment, the process that is used for power plant fuel and in higher purities needed for a nuclear weapon.