Iran says West not cooperative in nuclear talks
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Iran has said that Western countries have not been cooperative in nuclear talks and vowed to pursue its "peaceful" nuclear activities.
Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said that Western countries have neither been cooperative nor sincere in the nuclear talks with Iran, local media reported Thursday.
Referring to the several rounds of nuclear talks between Iran and the world's major powers -- the latest in Moscow earlier this week, Hashemi-Rafsanjani said that the West has resorted to coercion and is seeking proper time to implement their objectives.
Hashemi-Rafsanjani, currently the chief of Iran's expediency council, called on different political factions inside the country to unite in order to nullify the plots of the country's enemies.
The latest round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 (United States, Britain, China, France, Russia plus Germany) ended without an agreement in the Russian capital late Tuesday. But all parties agreed to hold an expert level meeting again in Turkey's Istanbul in July.
An Iranian lawmaker said Thursday that Iran would never abandon its "peaceful" nuclear activities, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Rapporteur of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's Majlis (parliament), Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini, told IRNA that the Iranian nation would never abandon its peaceful nuclear activities nor yield to "illegitimate" demands of the arrogant powers.
Naqavi-Hosseini denounced the West's sanctions imposed on the country in the past decade.
Each of those sanctions was enough to bring any nation down to its knees, Naqavi-Hosseini said, adding that "however, the Iranians continue their path (to progress) despite all those conspiracies."
Enemies are determined to stop Iranians from moving towards progress, particularly in terms of their economic activities, he added.
On Wednesday, Naqavi-Hosseini told semi-official Fars news agency that the P5+1 is not seriously trying to find a common point with Tehran.
"The negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 in Russia showed that the group uses the tactic of double-standard practice against Iran's nuclear policies," the report quoted him as saying.
The world powers want to protract the time of the negotiations so that they can justify imposition of fresh sanctions against Iran, said the lawmaker.
On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released a statement on the conclusion of the talks between the P5+1 and Iran.
"The Secretary-General regrets that the P5+1 and the Islamic Republic of Iran were unable to reach an agreement on concrete and reciprocal measures at their meeting in Moscow," said the statement.
According to the UN chief's statement, his hopes are that all parties "strengthen their resolution to quickly achieve a negotiated solution that restores international confidence in an Iranian nuclear program that could be deemed exclusively peaceful. "
Furthermore, the UN chief "appeals to the parties to resume their diplomatic engagement with renewed intensity, and the outmost flexibility," the statement said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that talks between Iran and the six world powers over its nuclear program are of high frequency and should continue without pause.
Commenting on the latest round of Moscow talks between Iran and the P5+1, foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said the unprecedented high frequency of the talks itself was "a significant achievement, taking into account the issue's history and a serious lack of trust between the parties."
Though huge differences remain, the work must continue since it was a very thorough process, Lukashevich said, adding that the Moscow round of talks was "more substantial than the previous one. "
The "essence of the problem" during the negotiations was that relevant parties have different priorities for their tasks, which made it hard to reach reconciliation for further steps, Lukashevich said.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said Thursday that the United States, Britain and Israel have joint plans to launch a massive cyber attack against Tehran after the nuclear talks in Moscow, the Press TV reported.
"Based on obtained information, the U.S. and the Zionist regime (of Israel) along with the MI6 (the British intelligence service) planned an operation to launch a massive cyber attack against Iran 's facilities following the meeting between Iran and the P5+1 in Moscow," Moslehi was quoted as saying.
"They still seek to carry out the plan (of cyber attack), but we have taken necessary measures," Moslehi added.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the United States and Israel have jointly developed a computer virus known as "Flame " targeting Iran's nuclear ability.
U.S. officials said the massive piece of malware nicknamed Flame secretly mapped and monitored Iran's computer networks, sending back a steady stream of intelligence to prepare for a cyber warfare campaign, according to the report.
U.S. National Security Agency, the CIA and Israel's military were reported to involve in the efforts that included the use of destructive software such as the Stuxnet virus to cause malfunctions in Iran's nuclear enrichment equipment, said the paper.
In May, Iran's media reported that Iranian cyber experts detected and contained a complicated Israeli spy virus known as Flame that had targeted Iran's oil industry.
The head of Information Technology Organization of Iran, Ali Hakim Javadi, said earlier that the country's experts had managed to produce anti-virus software that could spot and remove the detected computer virus Flame.
Over the past few years Iran has been the target of numerous cyber attacks aimed to disrupt the country's industrial systems.
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