MP Urges Removal of All Sanctions before Iran-Sextet Final Nuclear Deal
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian lawmaker emphasized that all sanctions should be lifted at once prior to any final agreement between Iran and the world powers over the country’s peaceful nuclear program.
“We believe that in order to reach a final agreement, sanctions should be removed once and for all,” Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi told the Tasnim News Agency on Wednesday.
He also termed gradual removal of sanctions “unacceptable”, and said, “From the beginning of the interim deal, we believed that all sanctions should be lifted at once and completely, because the issue is among our basic tenets for reaching a final agreement.”
The lawmaker added that the Iranian negotiating team in its talks with the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) should adhere to the basic principles.
He also described Westerner’s remarks on the necessity to achieve a final agreement before the November 24 deadline as “media propaganda campaign."
“The psychological warfare operations and the media propaganda campaign is one of the plots used by the US and the Zionist regime of Israel to create a situation in which the Iranian team would have to negotiate from a position of weakness,” Boroujerdi said.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) are in talks to hammer out a final deal to end a decade of impasse over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear energy program.
On November 24, 2013, Iran and the G5+1 (alternatively known as the P5+1 or E3+3) signed an interim nuclear deal in the Swiss city of Geneva.
Based on the interim deal, the world powers agreed to suspend some non-essential sanctions and impose no new nuclear-related bans in return for Tehran’s decision to freeze parts of its nuclear activities.
The Geneva deal (the Joint Plan of Action) came into effect in January and expired in July, when the parties decided to extend negotiations until November 24 in the hope of clinching a final deal that would end a decade of impasse over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear energy program.
In July, Tehran and the six countries agreed to extend negotiations until November 24 in the hope of clinching a final deal.