“Iran’s right to uranium enrichment on its soil was accepted in this nuclear deal by world powers”

Iran President Sheikh Hasan Rouhani said Sunday that Iran is going to continue enrichment activities adding that sanctions against the country were starting to crumble.
  
“Iran's right to uranium enrichment on its soil was accepted in this nuclear deal by world powers,” he said in a press conference broadcast live on state television. “The structure of the sanctions against Iran has begun to fall apart,” said Sheikh Rouhani.
 
The President said that Iran’s nuclear achievements are just manifestations of the nation’s dignity and grandeur.

It’s worth mentioning that families of the nuclear martyrs accompanied President Rouhani in his press conference Sunday morning. Sheikh Rouhani invited the families of the nuclear martyrs to join him behind the podium in the honor of the efforts and bravery of the martyred nuclear scientists.

In a letter he addressed to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei felicitating him on the absolute achievements, Sheikh Rouhani said the revolutionary offspring of Iran have managed to take the first step in a way that made the big world powers admit to the nation’s nuclear rights as well as its right for enrichment, IRNA reported.

The President added that the nuclear deal would also pave the way for future big steps towards guaranteeing Iran’s technological and economic advances.

President Rouhani noted that the nuclear deal was the beginning of removal of the tyrannical sanctions against Iran.

In response, Ayatollah Khamenei hailed the “achievement” of the country’s negotiating team in clinching a long-elusive nuclear deal with world powers. “The nuclear negotiating team should be thanked and appreciated for this achievement. God's grace and the support of the Iranian nation were the reasons behind this success,” Fars quoted Imam Khamenei as saying. “Resistance against excessive demands should be the criteria for (nuclear) officials,” he added.

After more than four days of intense negotiations, Iran and the P5+1 group sealed an interim deal in Geneva on Sunday morning.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran’s right to enrichment has been recognized in the nuclear deal between Tehran and the Sextet.

Addressing Iranian and foreign reporters on Sunday after the announcement of the deal, Zarif said that the agreement “covers several important domains, the most important of which is the recognition of the right to enrichment.” He added that the right to use peaceful nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment, is “an inalienable right” under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) which should be respected by all countries.

Zarif noted that the interim deal is an “important achievement” but a “first step” toward resolving an “unnecessary crisis”, stressing that the two sides need to work together based on “equal footing, mutual respect and common benefits” to settle the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program. He added that according to the Sunday deal “no new sanctions will be imposed against Iran and sanctions will be eased.”

According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the deal allows for Iran to continue its activities at Arak, Fordo and Natanz facilities. The agreement also stipulates that no additional sanctions will be imposed on Tehran because of its nuclear energy program.