An Iranian
lawmaker told Iran's state-run news website Press TV that the closure of the
Fordow nuclear facility is not on the agenda of Iranian negotiators during
upcoming talks with world powers in Geneva.
The official,
Mohammad Hossein Asafari, a member of Iran’s National Security and Foreign
Policy Committee, told
the Iranian news agency that Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi
has told Western powers that Tehran will not stop uranium enrichment and will
not close the Fordow plant.
Asafari was
quoted as saying that the decision on the acceptance of the Additional Protocol,
which allows the International Atomic Agency to inspect nuclear plants, is
solely up to the Majlis (the Iranian parliament).
Meanwhile,
Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu, who is meeting with U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry in Rome on Wednesday, is expected
to caution against easing Western sanctions on Iran.
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