Rouhani says Iran to sign final nuclear deal if sanctions lifted "simultaneously"

Iran will sign a nuclear deal with the major world powers only if sanctions against the country are lifted on the same day, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said here on Thursday.

The world has understood that Iran will never surrender to sanction pressures over its nuclear rights and scientific developments, Rouhani said, adding that the solutions to Iran's nuclear issue reached in the latest meeting in the Lausanne of Switzerland is a proof to the point that Iran's nuclear establishments will never be shut down.

"We will not seal any (comprehensive) deal only if all the economic sanctions are lifted on the same day and on the same date," he said in a televised speech on the state TV on Thursday.

The Laussane talks were a step forward and the other steps will be taken to finalize a deal before the deadline by June 30, he said.

Representatives from Iran and the P5+1 group -- including the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China plus Germany -- last Thursday concluded the nine-day Iran nuclear talks in Lausanne of Switzerland and reached common solutions to outstanding issues in a run for a comprehensive deal by the end of June.

According to the solutions, Iran will have to cut its stocks of highly enriched uranium by 98 percent over a period of 15 years, while its unfinished Arak heavy water reactor will not produce weapons-grade plutonium.

Tehran will also reduce its number of centrifuges to 6,104 from around 19,000, roughly two-thirds of the whole amount.

In return, Iran will receive sanctions relief, if it verifiably abides by its commitments. Endit