Iranian Foreign Minister said on Sunday that Tehran is ready to negotiate over aspects of its nuclear enrichment program but that its right to peaceful nuclear enrichment was not negotiable in talks with the United States

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that Tehran is ready to negotiate over aspects of its nuclear enrichment program but that its right to peaceful nuclear enrichment was not negotiable in talks with the United States.

“Negotiations are on the table to discuss various aspects of our enrichment program,” Zarif Zarif told ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday, adding that Iran was willing to open its nuclear facilities to international inspections but “the United States must end economic sanctions as part of any deal on Iran's nuclear program.”

“We do not need military-grade uranium. That's a certainty and we will not move in that direction,” Zarif said. “Having an Iran that does not have nuclear weapons, is not just your goal, it's first and foremost our goal.”

But the Iranian FM said Iran was willing to have its facilities visited by international inspectors to prove it was not seeking a nuclear bomb. "We are willing to engage in negotiations. The United States also needs to do things very rapidly. One is to dismantle its illegal sanctions against Iran," he said.

Zarif said there has been 34 years of "mutual distrust" between Iran and the United States but both sides should begin removing some of that distrust through talks.

Answering a question about the Holocaust, Zarif said: “We condemn the killing of innocent people, whether it happened in Nazi Germany or whether it’s happening in Palestine. The Holocaust was a heinous crime, it was a genocide, it must never be allowed to be repeated, but that crime cannot be and should not be a justification to trample the rights of the Palestinian people for 60 years.”