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TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Iran will tread carefully in negotiations with world powers with the aim of ensuring relief from sanctions targeting the energy sector, Iran's president said.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke Monday before the Central Bank of Iran, saying he was confident international sanctions will come to an end.
Western powers "have no other choice" but to work to find an agreeable solution to the nuclear impasse, he said.
High-level talks are scheduled this week in Geneva, less than a month after multilateral negotiations in Vienna failed to bear fruit.
Iran secured modest relief from sanctions one year ago during multilateral talks. Under the terms of an agreement, Iran can export about 1 million barrels of oil per day if it maintains its commitment to curb nuclear activity.
Rouhani characterized existing sanctions as "cruel," but added the Iranian economy was coping with pressure on its energy sector. Inflation was down, he said, and Iranian officials were busy working to draft a budget that reflects the bear market for crude oil.
Iran is out more than $35 billion in oil revenue since it agreed to a multilateral joint action plan with its nuclear negotiating partners last year.
The World Bank said in an October report the Iranian economy is contracting, but at a slower pace than before. Sanctions imposed on the Iranian energy sector in response to its nuclear program resulted in a real gross domestic product contraction of 5.8 percent last year.
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Soon after the Iran nuclear talks were recently extended for another seven months (beyond the November 22, 2014 deadline), President Rouhani spoke with the Iranian people in a televised address in which he sought to portray the inconclusive negotiations as a diplomatic victory for Iran, as an indication that his team of negotiators stood their ground in the face of excessive demands by the US and its allies.
In reality, however, the extension meant the failure of the Iranian negotiators to achieve anything of substance (in terms of sanctions relief) in exchange for the significant unilateral concessions they had made a year earlier. To put it differently, it meant that the US and its allies refused to honor what they had promised Iran in return for its suspension and/or downgrading of its nuclear technology.
A year earlier, that is, in the first round of negotiations on 24 November 2013, Iran had agreed to the following significant concessions: limit its enrichment of uranium from the level of 20 percent to below 5 percent purity, render unusable its existing stockpile of 20 percent fuel for further enrichment, not activate its heavy-water reactor in Arak, not use its more advanced IR-M2 centrifuges for enrichment, and consent to extensive IAEA inspections of its nuclear industry/facilities.
This obviously means that Iranian negotiators had agreed to more than freezing Irans nuclear technology; more importantly, they had reversed and rolled back significant scientific achievements and technological breakthroughs of recent years.
In return, the US and its allies had agreed that following the confidence building implementation of these commitments by Iran, economic sanctions against that country would be lifted.
A year later, and despite the fact that IAEA has consistentlyconfirmedIrans compliance with these commitments, major sanctions continue unabated. At a press conference on November 22, 2014, US Secretary of State John Kerry boasted that undiminished sanctions have forced Iran to either reverse or freeze much of its nuclear program. Today, Kerry stated, Iran has no 20 percent enriched uranium. Zero. None. They have diluted and converted every ounce that they have... Today, IAEA inspectors have daily access to Irans enrichment activities and a far deeper understanding of Irans program.
Instead of honoring what they had promised during the initial negotiations of year ago, the US and its allies now argue that Iran needs to make more concessions, and that therefore more time is needed for further negotiations-hence the seven-month extension of negotiations, to July 1, 2015.
And what are the new demands that are made of Iran? The new requirements, which the Iranian negotiators have now additionally agreed to, include the following:
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Iran says it discussed the mental state of Sydney gunman Man Haron Monis with Australian officials several times before this week's deadly cafe siege.
The 50-year-old Iranian refugee and two of his hostages died at the end of a 16-hour siege in a cafe in Sydney's CBD before dawn on Tuesday.
Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said Iranian and Australian authorities were well aware of the man's condition.
"The psychological conditions of the person who took refuge in Australia two decades ago had been discussed several times with the Australian officials," she said.
"The situation of the hostage taker had been completely clear to the Australian related officials."
Iran's Fars news agency also reported Australia had denied an attempt to extradite Monis to Iran, where he been indicted for fraud and went by the name of Mohammad Hassan Manteghi Boroujerdi before he came to Australia in 1996.
Comment was being sought from Justice Minister Michael Keenan, who has responsibility for extradition.
Ms Afkham said in a statement her government condemned the hostage taking.
"Resorting to inhuman methods and creating fear, under the name of religion, is by no way acceptable in any circumstances," she said.
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