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There will not be any nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1 until the inauguration of president-elect Hassan Rouhani, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi said.

During a press conference broadcasted on state TV IRIB on July 9, Araqchi said that the transition term between current and next administration must pass, then Iran can schedule a meeting with six powers (France, the US, the UK, Russia, China and Germany).

The inauguration of newly elected President Hassan Rouhani will be held in the Iranian parliament on August 4.

In 2012, representatives of P5+1 group and Iran held three rounds of talks in Istanbul (April 14), Baghdad (May 23-24) and Moscow (June 18-19). None of these meetings resulted in breakthroughs on disputed nuclear issues. Previously talks between the "Six Powers" and Iran were not conducted for over a year.

The U.S. and its Western allies suspect Iran of developing a nuclear weapon - something that Iran denies. The Islamic Republic has on numerous occasions stated that it does not seek to develop nuclear weapons, using nuclear energy for medical researches instead.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

The last time, Iran and the P5+1 group held negotiations on April 6 in Kazakh city of Almaty, which also did not yield any particular breakthrough results.