Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that the nuclear industry is witnessing progress and that sanctions and threats have not succeeded in stopping this path in Tehran's nuclear program, while the Atomic Energy Organization announced the comprehensive strategic document for the nuclear industry during the next 20 years.
In his speech on the occasion of the National Day of Nuclear Technology in Iran, Raisi called on all parties participating in the Vienna talks to respect the rights of the Iranian people, and announced the construction of a nuclear plant with local expertise in the Darkhwin region in the southwest of the country.
For his part, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, said that his country will work to have professional relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency by thwarting the influence of those he described as enemies, as he put it.
In a speech on the same occasion, Eslami stressed that Tehran expects the agency to abide by its legal obligations, calling on it to confront foreign pressures, and to have a firm stance towards sabotage operations carried out by Israel against his country's nuclear program, as he described it.
Eslami pointed out that the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization revealed 9 achievements related to the nuclear industry, including the announcement of the comprehensive strategic document for the nuclear industry, which will define the vision of this industry in Iran over the next 20 years.
Indirect talks between Iran and the United States faltered after they were held in Vienna for 11 months to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, as the two sides said that political decisions are needed from Tehran and Washington to settle the remaining issues.
Iranian and Western sources told Reuters that the United States is considering removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the list of foreign terrorist organizations in exchange for Iranian assurances about reining in the guard.
An Iranian diplomat told Reuters that Iran had rejected a US proposal to overcome this sticking point by keeping the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards within the sanctions imposed on foreign terrorist organizations while removing the Revolutionary Guards as an entity from the list.
The Revolutionary Guards is a powerful faction in Iran that controls a business empire alongside elite armed and intelligence forces that the United States accuses of carrying out military operations at the global level.