Deputy FM: Iran not to put full trust in US

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi underlined that Tehran will continue uranium enrichment under any condition, adding that Iranian negotiators will not put full trust in the US in their future talks. "We have never trusted the US 100 percent and we will not put 100 percent trust (in the US) in future path (of action and negotiation)," Araqchi said in a televised interview with Iran's state-run TV on Saturday night. Asked about Tehran's reaction to the US and other world powers' possible demand for the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program in future negotiations, he said, "We have been insisting on the impossibility of the suspension of enrichment for 10 years." "Enrichment will continue under any condition and this is our definite position," he said, but meantime added, "The frameworks, level, amount, form and place of enrichment is liable to negotiation." Iran has so far ruled out halting or limiting its nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives, saying that renouncing its rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would encourage the world powers to put further pressure on the country and would not lead to a change in the West's hardline stance on Tehran. Iran is under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment. The United States and the European Union have ratcheted up their sanctions on Iran this year to force it to curb its nuclear program. Iranian officials have always shrugged off the sanctions, saying that pressures make them strong and reinvigorate their resolve to further move towards self-sufficiency.