Pressure on Iran has no prospects - Jalili
ALMATY. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Saeed Jalili, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and the head of the Iranian delegation in the negotiations with the Sextet, has warned that pressure exerted by the world community on Iran to cause it to close its nuclear program has no prospects.
"Iran has always welcomed negotiations," he told a briefing on Wednesday, summing up the results of the two-day negotiations between Iranian officials and representatives of the international Sextet.
"What could become the wrong strategy for these negotiations? It could be pressure. Pressuring Iran to stop the development of its achievements would have no prospects," he said.
"That was the reason why we continued working in this direction and why we behaved this way in these negotiations," he said.
"Pressure is not only unfruitful for them, it prevents them from succeeding. In this round of negotiations, we saw them try to meet us halfway, despite all relations that occurred in the past eight months. We believe that's a good thing. It's an indication of changes in the strategy. We see the fact that they wish to continue negotiations realistically and based on the proper strategy to give a formula and content to the negotiations as the starting point," Jalili said.
