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Saturday, July 25, 2015
Zarif reacts to Kerry’s Senate hearing remarks

Zarif reacts to Kerry’s Senate hearing remarks
News ID: 2865254 - Sat 25 July 2015 - 10:47
http://en.mehrnews.com/news/108754/Zarif-reacts-to-Kerry-s-Senate-hearing-remarks

TEHRAN, Jul. 25 (MNA) – Iran’s FM Zarif has responded to recent remarks by
US Secretary of States John Kerry, calling them “incomplete references to
some issues raised at nuclear negotiations.”

In response to some of Kerry’s claims at a hearing before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on Thursday over the conclusion of the nuclear talks
with Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif underscored the Iranian nation’s resistance
against various kinds of international pressure in a bid to dissuade them
from pursuing a peaceful nuclear program and its rights under the
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), adding such resistance finally forced the US
to leave confrontation for negotiation.

The Iranian diplomat also criticized Kerry’s remarks over 'US capability to
use military force' against Iran, dismissing it as a 'hollow threat.'

“This kind of talks belongs to the last century and is opposed to the jus
cogens of the international law today,” said Zarif while advising the US to
put aside the language of threat and sanctions against the people of Iran
'once and for all.'

Zarif further maintained that he had repeatedly told Kerry during the
negotiations that Iranians would never show strong reaction to US policies
without a good reason.

He noted that the US hostile moves against Iran over the past 60 years
including “the coup against a democratic government and its support for the
coup government in 1953, all-out support for the Pahlavi regime, and backing
Saddam Hussein regime in its countless crimes against the people of Iraq and
Iran, are the reasons for the Iranians’ anger at Washington.

Zarif further stated that contrary to Kerry’s remarks, the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) clearly specified that the contents of
the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 are different from those of the
nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the 5+1 on July 14.

“Some issues Mr. Kerry raised over Iran’s support for its regional allies
with battling extremism and the ISIL Takfiri terrorists as its forefront
have no relation to the agreement,” Zarif said, adding that Tehran would do
everything in its capacity to counter terrorism and extremism in the region.

The Iranian Foreign Minister also stressed that US efforts to create
divisions among Iranian authorities and people are “doomed to failure,"
advising the Americans to avoid repeating their past mistakes regarding such
forged categorizations.

US Secretary of States John Kerry faced tough questioning by a largely
skeptical panel of senators at a Senate committee hearing over Iran nuclear
deal on Thursday. The US Senate is most likely to try out new lines of
attack throughout the agreement's 60-day Congressional review period.






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