MP Highlights Features of 'Bad Nuclear Deal' for Iran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian lawmaker reiterated the peaceful nature of the country’s nuclear energy program, saying that if any possible agreement between Tehran and six world powers does not protect all of Iran’s nuclear rights, it will be “a bad deal”.
“A bad deal is the one that does not protect our rights,” Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran regards access to nuclear bombs as its redline, therefore, according to the international law, the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), we have the right to peaceful nuclear activities in all areas,” he noted.
“The right should be preserved and if anything other than this is agreed on, it would be a bad deal,” Boroujerdi said.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, US, Britain, France, and Germany) are in talks to hammer out a lasting accord that would end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran's civilian nuclear program.
On April 2, Iran and the sextet reached a framework nuclear agreement in Lausanne, Switzerland, with both sides committed to push for a final deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), until the end of June.