IRAN-NUCLEAR/ZARIF-LAVROV-TALKS Russia's Lavrov and Iran's Zarif say nuclear deal will boost bilateral ties

Record ID: 143706

  • Title: IRAN-NUCLEAR/ZARIF-LAVROV-TALKS Russia's Lavrov and Iran's Zarif say nuclear deal will boost bilateral ties
  • Date: 17th August 2015
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (AUGUST 17, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIOR OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY MANSION RUSSIAN AND IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS SERGEI LAVROV AND JAVAD ZARIF ENTERING ROOM FOR TALKS LAVROV AND ZARIF TAKING SEATS CAMERA OPERATORS TALKS IN PROGRESS LAVROV SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV, SAYING: "There are all the opportunities tod
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  • Story Text: Russian and Iranian foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov and Javad Zarif said during their talks in Moscow on Monday (August 17) that the Iranian nuclear deal reached in Vienna may boost the bilateral ties between their countries.
    "There are all the opportunities today to bring the Russian-Iranian relations to a new, more advanced level in the spirit of the agreements reached by the two presidents (Putin and Rouhani) and taking into account those decisions that were made to resolve the situation around the Iranian nuclear programme," Lavrov said.
    Russian and Iranian presidents met in July in the Russian city of Ufa on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, just days before the deal was agreed in Vienna.
    Zarif said that the agreement will have a positive impact on cooperation in the spheres of economy and defence.
    "We are confident that the Vienna agreement will have an enormous impact on developing ties between our two countries. Our relations have been good and the deal will have a positive impact on developing relations in all areas, including economy, defence and so on," Iranian foreign minister said.
    Under the July 14 pact signed in Vienna, world powers agreed to lift sanctions in return for curbs on a nuclear program the West suspects was aimed at developing the means to build an atomic bomb. Tehran says it seeks only peaceful atomic energy.
    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has defended a nuclear agreement with world powers that conservatives have criticized. Following are parts of the deal that have drawn objections from the Islamic Republic's security hardliners.
    Conservative members of parliament and commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guards say the deal has breached conditions set by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and want changes.
    But the Iranian officials who negotiated the agreement, known as the JCPOA and reached in Vienna on July 14, say it can be only approved or rejected as a whole.
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