Tehran: An influential Iranian MP has welcomed the country's four-month extension of nuclear negotiations with world powers, saying it signalled mutual willingness to reach a comprehensive agreement.
The remarks by Aladin Borujerdi, head of Iran's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, were the first high-level reaction in Tehran after long-running talks in Vienna failed to produce a breakthrough by Sunday's July 20 deadline.
"The message of this extension... is that the negotiating sides have the will to reach a comprehensive agreement," the official IRNA news agency quoted Borujerdi as saying.
Such a deal is aimed at making Tehran's nuclear drive incapable of developing an atomic bomb, in exchange for the West lifting painful sanctions.
"But this definitely does not mean that we would change our positions in the next four months," he added.
Iran says its demand is aimed at guaranteeing fuel for its sole nuclear power plant in Bushehr in the future, although it has not laid out a clear timeline for its plans.
Iran says it is not pursuing a bomb, but Western powers and Israel suspect that Tehran's activities mask a military dimension.
The remarks by Aladin Borujerdi, head of Iran's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, were the first high-level reaction in Tehran after long-running talks in Vienna failed to produce a breakthrough by Sunday's July 20 deadline.
"The message of this extension... is that the negotiating sides have the will to reach a comprehensive agreement," the official IRNA news agency quoted Borujerdi as saying.
Such a deal is aimed at making Tehran's nuclear drive incapable of developing an atomic bomb, in exchange for the West lifting painful sanctions.
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"But this definitely does not mean that we would change our positions in the next four months," he added.
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Iran says its demand is aimed at guaranteeing fuel for its sole nuclear power plant in Bushehr in the future, although it has not laid out a clear timeline for its plans.
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Iran says it is not pursuing a bomb, but Western powers and Israel suspect that Tehran's activities mask a military dimension.
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