Iran says steps taken by the United States to lift sanctions are good but not enough.
According to the report, the US decision to lift sanctions comes at a time when Iran and world powers have reached the next stage of negotiations to restore the 2015 agreement on its nuclear program, a matter of easing sanctions in the talks. There is an important issue.
ISNA news agency quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian as saying that "lifting some sanctions could be a sign of goodwill towards the United States." It should be noted that what happens on paper is good but not enough.
The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council also reflected Tehran's position, saying the US move was insufficient.
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Ali Shamkhani said in a tweet that a real, effective and verifiable economic benefit for Iran is a necessary condition for the formation of the agreement.
Pretending to lift sanctions is not considered a constructive effort.
The State Department said yesterday that it was lifting sanctions on Iran's civil nuclear program as a technical step necessary to return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deal. Former President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and re-imposed tough sanctions on Iran, after which the Islamic Republic of Iran began to backtrack on its commitments under the agreement.
Allows other countries and companies to participate in Iran's civil nuclear program without imposing US sanctions on those countries, while promoting non-proliferation, protection and non-proliferation.
Iran's civil program includes growing reserves of enriched uranium. Amir Abdullahian reiterated that an important issue in the JCPOA negotiations is to ensure that the United States does not back down from the 2015 agreement.
"We want and demand guarantees in the political, legal and economic spheres. Agreements have been reached in some areas," he said.
Iran, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia are holding direct and indirect talks with the United States in Vienna. Participating countries will have to make important political decisions.
Amir Abdullahian said that in the Vienna talks, our negotiating team is seriously trying to get concrete guarantees from the West to fulfill its promises.
According to Iranian media, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzada said that Iran is considering any action that is in the right direction to fulfill the obligations of the JCPOA agreement.
European countries involved in the talks have urged Iran to take advantage of the opportunity to waive US sanctions.
Negotiators from Britain, France and Germany said in a joint statement that the US move should facilitate the necessary technical talks for the return of the CPOA in Vienna.
We urge Iran to seize this opportunity immediately, as the time for exemption from sanctions emphasizes the point on which we agree with the United States that we have the JCPOA negotiations a successful conclusion. There is very little time for that.
