Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the upcoming talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 would only be limited to the issues agreed in the Joint Plan of Action singed in late November.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the upcoming talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 would only be limited to the issues agreed in the Joint Plan of Action singed in late November, IRNA news agency reported.

"We will only talk about the contents of the Geneva deal. Issues out of the Joint Plan of Action won't be certainly discussed. This is an explicit and clear issue," Zarif told IRNA Sunday, a day before departing to Vienna, Austria.

The Iranian official left Tehran for Vienna Monday morning to attend the next round of nuclear talks with the world Sextet (US, Britain, Russia, France and China plus German) to begin on Tuesday.

Zarif is leading the Iranian delegation while European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is heading the G5+1.

Commenting on the issues to be raised during the upcoming talks, he said that Iran is the one who decides about the issues.

"Determining the topics of discussion by Tehran is an indication to our independence and this is what we do not exchange with anything else," he stated.

Stressing that the Iranian nuclear negotiating team enjoys the full support of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Zarif said: "We only talk about certain issues as emphasized by the Supreme Leader," referring to talks with the US officials.

As for western states demand for the closure of Iran's Fordow facility, Zarif said: "We have announced from the very beginning that no country or official has the right to dictate anything to us. Our people resist against use of force and imposition."

"If they mention demands irrelevant to the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program, then we will by no means accept it," he stressed.