A senior Iranian negotiator says the Islamic Republic will not accept shutting down or even suspending the activities of any of its nuclear facilities in its talks with the group of six world powers, Press TV reports.
"All the nuclear capabilities of Iran will be preserved and no facility will be shut down or even suspended and no device or equipment will be dismantled," Abbas Araqchi, who is also Iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, said on Saturday.
“We will not retreat one iota from the country’s nuclear rights, but we are fully ready for transparency and confidence-building,” he said, adding that Iran will push ahead with "industrial-scale enrichment" of uranium to meet the country's civil needs.
