Political analyst calls on US to accept realities of Iran's nuclear programme

Seyed Mohammad Marandi, a political analyst and an academic at Tehran University, underlined that Washington must come to accept the realities of Iran's nuclear technology and respect Tehran's rights in this regard.
"The US, at least from the Iranian perspective, has not been able to make a decision with regards to Iran’s nuclear energy program, and to accept the reality on the ground which is Iran's insistence on its right of a peaceful nuclear program,” Marandi said on Wednesday.
Marandi's remarks came after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said it would require a lot of work and hard discussions to reach a final deal between Tehran and six world countries (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany).
The political analyst said that the problem really lies in Washington and the Iranian foreign minister, in his statements, is basically alluding to this point that the US has to make a political decision, it has to show maturity and to accept and confront reality.
Marandi stated that the US has to show political will to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear energy program as Washington “needs Iran desperately because of the rise of ISIL Takfiri terrorists and extremism throughout the region".
Zarif left Tehran for New York on Tuesday morning to participate in the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and the six major world powers on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting.
On September 1, Zarif and Ashton met in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss the process of the ongoing nuclear talks.
Last November, the two sides signed an interim deal in Geneva, which took effect on January 20 and expired six months later on July 20. In July, Tehran and the six countries agreed to extend negotiations until November 24 after they failed to reach an agreement on a number of key issues.
On Wednesday, Zarif said goodwill on the part of the six world powers in their talks with Tehran would lead to a permanent settlement of the decade-long nuclear crisis between the two sides.
"We have always said in our negotiations with the other side that if they show mutual respect and goodwill reaching a final and comprehensive agreement can easily be achieved," Zarif told reporters after his meeting with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in New York on Wednesday.
He noted that he held over three hours of talks with the EU foreign policy chief in New York yesterday.