President: Iran won’t abandon talks over nuke pact

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Oct 27, 2021. (IRANIAN PRESIDENCY OFFICE VIA AP)

TEHRAN – Iran will not leave the negotiating table, the country’s president said on Thursday, after the announcement that the Vienna nuclear talks will resume on Nov 29.

"As Iran has previously stated, we will not leave the negotiating table, but we will stand up to excessive demands that cause damages on the interests of the Iranian nation," said Ebrahim Raisi.

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While pursuing the lifting of the sanctions, Tehran will simultaneously seek to neutralize their effects on the Iranian economy

Ebrahim Raisi, President, Iran

The president made the remark on the occasion of Iran's National Day of Fighting Against Global Arrogance, celebrating the anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in the country after the 1979 revolution, semi-official Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported.

Iran expects the upcoming Vienna talks, aiming to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, to be "result-oriented," and Iranian negotiators will "by no means fall short of the rightful demand of the Iranian people, namely the lifting of the iniquitous sanctions," Raisi said.

While pursuing the lifting of the sanctions, he added, Tehran will simultaneously seek to neutralize their effects on the Iranian economy.

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Raisi said the United States has been hostile to Iran for seven decades, in a reference to the US-backed coup that overthrew the Iranian government in 1953 during the nationalization of the country's oil resources.

On Wednesday evening, an agreement to resume the Vienna talks on Nov 29 was announced by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, and later confirmed by the EU and US official diplomatic sources.