MP Opposes Partial Removal of Anti-Iran Sanctions in N. Talks
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian lawmaker urged the removal of sanctions imposed against Tehran all at once, saying that Iran expects the removal of sanctions at the end of the nuclear negotiations with six world powers in Vienna.
The Islamic Republic has already announced that there are clear redlines in the negotiations over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program and “nobody has the right to cross them,” Elias Naderan, a member of the Iranian Parliament's Planning and Budget Commission, said in interview with the Tasnim News Agency on Wednesday.
He emphasized that the entire sanctions should be lifted and “the removal of part of them are not acceptable”.
The embargos include anti-Iran resolutions passed by the UN Security Council, the US Congress, the European Union, and the orders issued by the US president, he added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian parliamentarian reiterated the peaceful nature of Tehran’s nuclear program.
The remarks by Naderan came as diplomats from Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) are in Vienna to hammer out a final, long-awaited agreement to resolve the West’s decade-old standoff over Iran's civilian nuclear work.
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.
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.