Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register DUBAI, April 9 (Reuters) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that Tehran would not relinquish its right to develop its nuclear industry for peaceful purposes and that all parties involved in talks to revive its nuclear deal 2015 should be respected. Eleven months of indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Vienna have stalled, with both sides saying political decisions are needed from Tehran and Washington to resolve the remaining issues. read more “For more than a hundred times, our message from Tehran to Vienna has been that we will not give up on the Iranian people’s nuclear rights … not a single yacht,” Rice said in a speech on Iran’s nuclear program. Technology Day. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Rice reiterated Iran’s position that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. The United States is considering removing the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the black list of foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) in exchange for Iranian assurances of a relaxation of the elite, Reuters reported. . A senior government official said President Joe Biden had no plans to remove the group from the terror designation, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who specializes in intelligence, said on Friday. An Iranian diplomat told Reuters that Tehran had rejected a US proposal to overcome the sticking point by keeping the IRGC’s overseas arm, the Quds Force, under FTO sanctions, while deleting the IRGC as an entity. The IRGC is a powerful faction in Iran that controls a business empire as well as elite armed forces and intelligence forces that Washington accuses of waging a global terrorist campaign. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Reportage by Paris Hafezi and the Dubai newsroom. Editing by Angus MacSwan, Jan Harvey and Daniel Wallis Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
