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      Rouhani: Despite Criticism, 'Everyone Will Comply' With Nuclear Deal

   by VOA News

   Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said a majority of people in Iran
   support the international agreement on the country's nuclear program,
   even if some hardliners denounce the deal.

   Rouhani told CBS' 60 Minutes in an interview broadcast in the U.S.
   Sunday that once approved by relevant institutions within Iran
   "everyone will comply."

   "The majority of our people, in opinion polls, have a positive view of
   the agreement," he said.  "And usually institutions like the parliament
   and the Supreme National Security Council, are usually not far removed
   from public opinion and move in that direction."

   Rouhani also talked about the potential for wider ramifications of the
   deal when it comes to Iran's relationship with the United States,
   saying a lack of trust between the two countries will not soon
   disappear, but that he believes the negotiations mark a first step
   toward decreasing the enmity between them.

   "Many areas exist where in those areas it's possible that common goals,
   or common interests, may exist," he said.  "But what is important is
   that in the nuclear agreement, we see how the two sides behave in
   action.  Enacting this deal in a good way will create a new
   environment."

   The agreement, reached in July between Iran and a group that includes
   the U.S., Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany, calls for
   limiting Iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions that
   have hurt the country's economy.

   Rouhani was one of the Iranian officials who took part in meetings
   Sunday in Tehran with the visiting head of the International Atomic
   Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano.  The IAEA leader also met with Iran's
   nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
   Zarif.

   In those meetings, and with Iranian lawmakers, the IAEA said Amano
   discussed the U.N.'s long-running probe into allegations of past
   military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program as well as the
   verification and implementation of the wider international agreement.

   Amano is due to deliver a final report on the IAEA investigation by
   December 15.  Sanctions relief is contingent on Iran satisfying the
   U.N.'s questions about allegations it worked to develop nuclear
   weapons, which Iran has denied.

   In addition to the meetings Sunday, Amano gained access to Iran's
   Parchin military site, which has been a key focus in the U.N. probe.
   For years, Iran denied access to IAEA personnel, insisting the area was
   strictly military in nature and would not be opened up to outsiders.

   An IAEA statement said only that Amano visited Parchin as part of
   implementing the investigation roadmap the two sides agreed to in July,
   without giving further details.

   Iran's state-run IRNA news agency quoted Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman
   for the country's nuclear agency, saying Amano visited some
   construction areas at the site. He also called Amano's meetings with a
   parliamentary committee examining the international nuclear deal
   "mostly critical, useful and constructive," IRNA said.

   Iranian officials have blamed the U.S. and Israel for the focus on
   Parchin, saying those countries provided faulty intelligence alleging
   research toward building nuclear weapons.

   Israel and other opponents of the nuclear agreement say it will leave
   Iran with too much of a nuclear program intact and the possibility of
   building a weapons program in the future.

   Last week, Democrats in the U.S. Senate defeated Republican efforts to
   lodge a vote against the terms of the agreement during the 60-day
   review period lawmakers had from the day they got the official text of
   the deal.
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