Head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's Majlis (parliament) Ala'eddin Boroujerdi said Sunday his country would resume uranium enrichment at 20 percent grade if nuclear talks with P5+1 failed to yield a comprehensive agreement.
Today Iran and the six powers (the US, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany) had missed a six-month deadline, set to complete a long-term agreement on the decades-long dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
On Friday they agreed to extend the deadline for four months.
Commenting on the extension, in a statement to Fars News, Boroujerdi said it signals the political will of both sides to reach a comprehensive deal.
"However, the extension does not provide a guarantee for reaching such an agreement of course. Any agreement must take stock of Iran's nuclear rights," the senior parliamentarian affirmed.
"What our negotiators raised during the past rounds of talks constitutes the minimum of our demands which the US must take into account," he made clear.
"Our negotiators informed the US side that in case of failure to reach an understanding soon, Iran will have to unleash the next stage of the uranium enrichment at 20 percent grade, install new generation of nuclear centrifuges and operate the Arak reactor," he pointed out.
Boroujerdi added that all points of the anticipated nuclear agreement will be tabled to the Majlis for approval as a prelude to final endorsement by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.