Tehran (IP) - The interim Friday prayer leader in Tehran says Tehran is pursuing the lifting of sanctions from a position of dignity and will not accept any unfair or illogical remark.

Iran PressIran News: While appreciating the active diplomacy of President Ebrahim Raisi's administration in the regions, Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari said in his Friday prayer sermons: "The administration has kept all its promises and what the Supreme Leader of the Revolution wanted."

Referring to the negotiations in Vienna on lifting the sanctions. Haj Ali Akbari said: "We will have the same position against the avarice. We negotiate fairly and with dignity, and will not accept any illogical remark."

Meanwhile, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said earlier that the United States was behind the recent anti-Tehran resolution, which was adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ’s Board of Governors, in order to mount pressure on Iran in the Vienna talks.

In recent months, Iran has cited Washington’s indecisiveness as the reason behind the protraction of the Vienna sanctions removal talks, which have been held in the Austrian capital since April last year to restore the 2015 Iran deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a deal ditched by former US President Donald Trump in May 2018.

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