Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has described Tehran's approach towards the United States as a "diplomacy of strength," saying ongoing talks differ fundamentally from the 2015 Vienna nuclear negotiations.
Chief negotiator Ghalibaf told state broadcaster IRIB that Iran was entering negotiations from a position of strength due to what he called recent military successes.
The 2015 agreement reached in Vienna between Iran, the permanent UN Security Council members, Germany and the European Union was aimed at preventing Tehran from developing a nuclear weapons capability.
Iran's former supreme leader Ali Khamenei had at the time endorsed what he called "heroic flexibility" in negotiations, while hardliners criticized the accord as a compromise. The US later withdrew from the agreement in 2018 during the first term of President Donald Trump, reinstating sanctions that deepened Iran's economic crisis.
Ghalibaf said there was no room in the current talks for "empty rhetoric," concessions or compromise, adding that the process represented "a form of resistance." He said Iran's military gains had been acknowledged by both allies and opponents.
State news agency IRNA published the text of the framework agreement on Wednesday evening, which broadly matched versions circulated in Western media.
