Friday prayer leaders have praised the nuclear negotiating team for standing up to “excessive demands of the hegemonistic powers” in the talks between Iran and the major powers on the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program, IRNA reported. Ayatollah Hashem Hosseini Bushehri, the Friday payer leader of Qom, said the negotiators have defended the nations’ inalienable rights and the nation will continue supporting them. “The negotiators should continue the talks based on the Leader’s guidelines as they have done in the past,” he added. Hojatoleslam Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini Hamedani, the Friday prayer leader of Karaj, said the negotiators have defended the people’s rights “bravely”, adding that they did well in the most recent round of nuclear talks in Vienna.