Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said, “Mutual trust and respect and commitment to interim agreements are conditions for the continuation of negotiations.”

He made the remark in a meeting with the Chairman of the Italian Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee in Tehran, according to hashemirafsanjani.ir.

He said: “European and Americans imparted distrust against Iran to their people for years. Now, it is a test for them (Geneva agreement) and they should approved that they are trustable as well.”

The Chairman of the Italian Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee said that the world maintains that Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s stances in the past 35 years have been proper and accurate.

Addressing the Ayatollah in a meeting held at the office of State Expediency Council, he said: “The entire world is well aware that you have always been looking for a way to have respectful relations with other countries,” according to hashemirafsanjani.ir.  

The chairman of the Expediency Council referred to spread of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq with the support of the United States, saying:” This virus (terrorism) will not stay in the place it was produced and fostered, and the first opportunity in gets, it will spread everywhere.”

He added that interaction and dialog are wise solutions to any political problem.

“The US cannot claim it has kept its geography immune from the threat of terrorists because the bodies of the American soldiers that are delivered to their families, are the result of a seed planted by extremist US governments in Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said.

The Italian senator, for his part, commended Iran for taking a positive stance on negotiations with the six powers and making efforts to win the international confidence.