By Xinhua,
Tehran : Iran will not support any package of incentives offered by world powers that violate Iran’s “nuclear rights,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said on Monday.
“Incentives that in anyway violate our interests and our rights will not be supported by us,” Hosseini told a news conference broadcast and translated on Iran’s English-language Press TV. He made remarks when asked about a plan by six world powers to offer a new package of incentives to coax Tehran to roll back its nuclear program.
“Regarding the incentives package … we believe the path adopted in the past should not be continued,” Hosseini said. “They should act based on realities and international regulations.” World major countries negotiating with Iran have agreed on a revamped offer of incentives to try to coax the country to rollback its disputed nuclear program, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday.
“We’ve got an agreement on an offer that will be made to the government of Iran,” Miliband said following a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group 5+1 — the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany.
He said the parties will transmit that offer to the government of Iran, hoping that the Iranian government will recognize the seriousness and the sincerity with which the parties approached this issue and that Iran will respond “in a timely manner” to the offer.
The six parties have previously promised to sweeten the package of political, security and economic incentives they put on the table in June 2006 if Iran suspends its uranium enrichment. The incentives forged in 2006 included an offer by the United States to provide Iran with peaceful nuclear technology, lift some sanctions and conduct direct negotiations with Tehran.