The NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mohammad Mohaddessin announced, “While welcoming the concessions offered by the P5+1, this lengthy response demands further concessions. It ignores the demands of the international community in particular for the regime to suspend uranium enrichment.”
The regime’s response to the package of incentives on the one hand shows its brazenness in taking advantage of the policy of appeasement and on the other hand is an indication of the regime’s decision to obtain the nuclear bomb as a strategic guarantee for its survival. By purporting its readiness to negotiate, the regime is obfuscating and trying to deceive the international community as it has done for the past two decades and buy time to push ahead with its nuclear projects.
At a time when the regime’s leaders such as Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insist on the continuation of their nuclear projects and enrichment, Larijani told the representatives of the P5+1, “Despite all the propaganda that Iran is trying to buy time, the representatives of the P5+1 should return to the negotiating table as soon as possible to discuss all the issues in the package, including long-term nuclear cooperation, economic and technical cooperation, and also security cooperation in the region, so that we can reach an understanding.”
The deputy chief of the regime’s Atomic Energy Organization and a member of the regime’s nuclear negotiations team Mohammad Saeedi said, “We think that there is basically no reason to carry out a suspension as a precondition (to negotiations). It is possible that in the past the issue of suspension could have been raised, but, today, considering that the Islamic Republic of Iran has this technology at hand, suspension is no longer on the agenda. We have said from the outset that we are willing to negotiate if there are no preconditions.”
Mohaddessin said that if the regime obtained nuclear weapons it would pave the way for the establishment of a global Islamic empire.
He said it was no coincidence that Khamenei had called for the establishment of Islamic rule in all Muslim countries while rejecting the incentives offered by the P5+1 states in his speech on Tuesday on the occasion of a Muslim holy feast. Khamenei said, “The establishment of Islamic rule… is the remedy to all pains and suffering of the Islamic world today.”
The rejection of the incentives by the regime, which indicates the mullahs’ determination to acquire nuclear weapons, reinforces the urgency and the need to impose comprehensive sanctions to prevent the regime from acquiring such weapons.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 23, 2006