Iranian President Sheikh Hasan Rouhani defended the performance of the Iranian team who is representing the Islamic Republic during nuclear talks with world powers.

Iranian President Sheikh Hasan Rouhani stressed that his country’s nuclear team is moving in the right path, as he defended the performance of the Iranian team who is representing the Islamic Republic during nuclear talks with world powers.

 Addressing a gathering of governor generals and governors from all over the country on Saturday, he said the members of the Iranian nuclear team are among the best, so no one should dare talk rudely to the diplomats who are defending the interests of country in front lines.

“The negotiating team moves within the framework of the Islamic establishment’s opinions and red lines and knows how to speak and is moving in the right path,” Rouhani said, according to Fars news agency.

He added that Iranian authorities must speak with the nation with honesty, wondering: “Who has the right to talk to the diplomacy czar in an impolite tone? Where did that impoliteness come from?”

Rouhani’s remarks came after the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, accompanied by Abbas Araqchi, a senior member of the nuclear negotiating team, attended a Majlis closed-door session on May 24 to brief the lawmakers on the latest developments in nuclear talks with the P5+1 countries.

At the end of the two-hour session, a video was leaked showing a lawmaker strongly criticizing Zarif and the nuclear negotiators in a loud and angry tone.

“We want to say to the great Iranian nation that they are so strong and capable that they could sit to negotiate with big world powers for their rights, defend their rights and eventually force them to lift the unfair sanctions.”

Commenting on the upcoming elections, he said his government could say it is successful only when the elections are held in an enthusiastic, free and healthy atmosphere.

He went on to comment on the political atmosphere of the country and said Iran is a pluralist country which welcomes diverse ideas. “Iran is not like, let's say, that country in Far East in which people should live as if they are in a garrison. Here people are free; they speak freely and express their ideas.”