In a speech to students and academics in Mashhad, he was quoted as saying that Iran's conditions had changed completely as it had become a nuclear state and could talk to other states from that stand.
マシュハドでの学生・研究者むけ演説では、イランの状況はいまや完全に変化し、核技術所有国としてそのような立場で外国と交渉できる、と述べたという。