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Nuclear Iran 1,000 times worse than IS: Netanyahu
by Staff Writers
Jerusalem (AFP) May 26, 2015


Rouhani says most Iranians want peace
Tehran (AFP) May 26, 2015 - An overwhelming majority of Iranians want peace with the rest of the world, President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday, defending the nuclear negotiations under way with major powers.

"Despite a small minority that speak loudly, the vast majority of the population are in favour of peace, reconciliation and constructive agreement with the world," Rouhani said during a televised speech in Shahriyar, west of Tehran.

Iran and the so-called P5+1 group (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany) have been engaged for nearly two years in negotiations on Tehran's nuclear programme to prevent the Islamic republic from getting the bomb, in exchange for the easing of international economic sanctions.

The two sides signed a framework agreement on April 2 and aim to finalise a deal by June 30.

The negotiations, approved by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have support within the country and among the Iranian political class.

But some conservatives have criticised the concessions made to the West.

"We are determined to solve our problems with the world through logic, reasoning and negotiation," Rouhani said, adding that "the strong nuclear negotiating team takes serious steps every day toward protecting the rights of the nation."

During a closed session in parliament on Sunday, ultraconservative lawmakers strongly criticised Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his deputy Abbas Araghchi, who are leading the nuclear talks with major powers.

The lawmakers accused them of having accepted in principle military site inspections by foreign experts, which have been ruled out by Khamenei.

Araghchi later said the negotiating team had refused such inspections.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday that a nuclear-armed Iran would be "a thousand times more dangerous and more destructive" than the Islamic State group, his office said.

"As horrific as ISIS is, once Iran, the preeminent terrorist state of our time, acquires nuclear weapons, it will be a hundred times more dangerous, a thousand times more dangerous and more destructive than ISIS," Netanyahu said, referring to IS.

His remarks came as political and technical experts representing Iran and world powers were to convene in Vienna ahead of a June 30 deadline for a deal over Tehran's nuclear programme.

"As we are meeting, the P5+1 talks are reconvening, and I'm afraid they're rushing to what I consider is a very bad deal," Netanyahu told US Senator Bill Cassidy, in remarks relayed by the Israeli premier's office.

"I see no reason to rush to a deal and certainly not a bad deal that paves Iran's path to the bomb, but also fills Iran's coffers with tens of billions of dollars to pursue its aggression throughout the Middle East and around Israel's borders," he said.

Netanyahu has been a fierce critic of the looming deal between Iran and world powers comprising the United States, Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany.

The accord would finalise an April 2 deal preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for an easing of crippling economic sanctions.

"We shouldn't give Iran a path to nuclear weapons and billions of dollars to pursue aggression because of ISIS," Netanyahu said of the group, which both the US and Iran see as a threat.

"ISIS should be fought; Iran should be stopped."


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