Washington is proposing and imposing new conditions on the issue of lifting sanctions, which are out of the negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian complained on Sunday.
The Iranian minister stressed that the American side has made excessive demands in the last two or three weeks that contradict some paragraphs of the text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the nuclear deal is formally known.
France, Germany, Britain, Russia, and China have been trying for over a year to revive the deal via direct talks with Tehran in Vienna while the United States is participating in the talks indirectly.
Amir-Abdollahian has underlined that Iran hasn’t seen any benefit of direct talks with the US though the Americans keep talking about the need for direct negotiations, pointing out that Tehran insists on lifting of the sanctions, but with dignity and with a lasting agreement, reiterating that Iran will stand by its red lines.
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has previously stressed that all parties involved in talks to revive the 2015 nuclear accord should respect the fact that Tehran would not give up the right to develop a nuclear industry for peaceful purposes.
In a speech marking Iran’s Nuclear Technology Day on Saturday, Raisi underscored that Tehran’s message to Vienna is that they’ll not back off even an iota from the Iranian people’s nuclear rights.
Although Iranian and Western sources had said that Washington is considering removing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its foreign terrorist organizations blacklist if Iranian guarantees reining in the elite force, a senior administration official said President Biden did not intend to remove IRGC from the terrorism designation.
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