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Press TV has interviewed Hamidreza Emadi, Press TV newsroom director from Tehran, to discuss the nuclear deal between Iran and six major world powers. 

- Interesting comments coming out of Washington with Mr. [Richard] Hellman, (the other guest of the program) basically saying, we have to wait and see, and perhaps now the US Congress maybe trying to actually implement more sanctions. Your take on that type of pessimism when it appears that the majority of the world seems to be quite optimistic about this agreement?

- It is very interesting. Israel once again is going against the will of the international community. Let me start with what Mr. Hellman said, sounds like Mr. Hellman has not had a chance to go through the Joint Plan of Action that was agreed upon by the P5+1 and Iran. It says Iran announces that it will enrich uranium over five percent for the duration of the six months.

So it means that over the next six months Iran does not enrich uranium over five percent. It has that capability to enrich uranium below the five percent level.

It means directly that if there were any concerns by anybody in international community regarding Iran’s nuclear program over the next six months, five percent is not going to turn into anything that could be considered as dangerous. So, I highly recommend that Mr. Hellman go and read this Joint Plan of Action, which was signed by all parties last night.

On the issue of sanctions, sanctions are illegal sanctions against the Iranian people. They have been imposed on a nation while the country’s nuclear program has remained intact.

When the sanctions were imposed first ten years ago, Iran had 400 centrifuges. Today, as we speak about, Iran has 19,000 centrifuges, many of them very modern ones.

It shows that the sanctions did not manage to halt Iran’s nuclear program and the West has realized that. The West knows that Iranians have lived with sanctions for thirty years and it has not changed that determination that if they wanted to do something they would do it. They have actually opted for. They have decided to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and they have done that.

You can see the angry reaction from Israel, very interesting. Israel is standing against the will of the international community.

- What do you think is the biggest problem that Israel has that basically they are saying that this agreement is a “historic mistake”?

- The biggest problem is Israel has been isolated once again. Maybe this time around it has been isolated more than ever before. In its short existence of six decades Israel has never been so isolated.

Listen to this one, “you should stand and shout out until you are blue in the face,” that is what Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid said. He is a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet. He says, “and you try to understand why they are not listening. The world wanted an agreement.”

So Israel is admitting that the whole world wanted an agreement with Iran, a deal with Iran. That means Israel is standing up to the whole world. It is standing against the will of the international community.

So it is very much telling. Israel is very much angry, because Israel realizes that its propaganda machine against Iran is not working and the whole world knows that Iran’s nuclear drive is solely peaceful. On the other hand Israel is telling the world these things, because it wants to drive the attention from its all nuclear weapons.

Israel has nuclear weapons. Israel has hundreds of nuclear warheads and Mr. Hellman needs to answer this question, Why does Israel not allow inspections of its nuclear facilities? It is a danger to the Middle East. It is a danger to the whole world. Israel does not allow inspections of its nuclear facilities. Israel is technically at war with all of its neighbors. Israel has used banned weapons against the people of Gaza, killed women and children using phosphorus bombs.

[In response to Richard Hellman]: …everyone is afraid of Israel using nuclear weapons. Israel… has attacked its neighbors…

- I want to look at this alliance that appears with the Israelis and the Saudis especially now that we are seeing with this deal. We have noticed silence today from Saudi Arabia; of course Al-Arabiya actually reporting of concern Saudi Arabia being weary. What is this alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel when it comes to Iran and Iran’s nuclear talks?

- Saudi Arabia is the world’s worst dictatorship and the United States is supporting the world’s worst dictatorship that is Saudi Arabia, and as Saudi Arabia is a major ally of Israel these days, they are working together in order to prevent the region’s only democracy that is Iran from having a better relationship with the whole world.

The fact that Saudi Arabia and Israel are working together is a common knowledge, everyone knows about that. They are working, trying their best to prevent a deal between Iran and the West. So they failed. Saudi Arabia failed. Israel failed. But this is not the first time they are failing. In Syria they failed to drag the United States into a war in Syria.

The United States managed to defeat the Saudi and the Israeli lobbies, [it] did not go to the war with Syria and everything ended there in a diplomatic fashion. They failed again when it came to Iran and then they will fail again, because the United States of America has realized that Israel in not an asset. It is a liability. Saudi Arabia, the world’ worst dictatorship is not an asset. It is a liability.

- Are you optimistic at all about the possibility of this deal working on?

- I am very much optimistic. I know that if the West is serious so the next six months, Iran will test their seriousness, the Western seriousness, and things will move forward as [Iranian] Foreign Minister [Mohammad Javad] Zarif said, in a diplomatic fashion, everything will be solved, the sanctions will be lifted and the whole world will realize that Israel was lying. Iran is just after a peaceful nuclear energy program.