Iran nuclear talks: Hardliners criticise nuclear deal

 

Hardliners in Iran have criticised the preliminary agreement with world powers on their country's nuclear programme.

The framework deal, the full details of which have still to be agreed, will see Iran curb sensitive nuclear activities in return for relief from sanctions.
Hossein Shariatmadari, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Iran had exchanged its "saddled horse" for one with a "broken bridle".
But many people have been celebrating the deal on the streets of Tehran.
Israel meanwhile called it "a step in a very, very dangerous direction".
Government spokesman Mark Regev said Iran would be left with an expansive nuclear infrastructure and able to pursue what he alleged was its "single goal" of developing a nuclear weapon.

   

Iranian officials have insisted that they have no such ambitions.

'Disaster'

Iran's foreign minister was given a hero's welcome upon his return to Tehran on Friday morning, a day after signing the framework deal with the so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany - in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dozens of people surrounded Mohammad Javad Zarif's car as it left Mehrabad airport, chanting slogans in support of him and President Hassan Rouhani, who was elected in 2013 after promising to end years of crippling sanctions imposed on Iran because of concerns about its nuclear programme.
Before leaving the airport, Mr Zarif warned that much work remained to be done if a comprehensive accord was to be finalised before the deadline of 30 June.