{"id":44004,"date":"2022-02-18T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=44004"},"modified":"2022-02-18T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T06:11:10","slug":"iran-calls-for-us-political-statement-on-commitment-tojcpoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/44004\/iran-calls-for-us-political-statement-on-commitment-tojcpoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran calls for US political statement on commitment toJCPOA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran has proposed that the US Congress makes a \u201cpolitical statement\u201d of its commitment to a nuclear accord with Tehran as talks in Vienna to revive the deal reaches a critical juncture.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with the Financial Times, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian\u00a0said Washington had failed to address Iran\u2019s demand for guarantees that no party is able to abandon the deal, as the US did under former President Donald Trump in 2018. Tehran also wants all sanctions imposed by Trump to be lifted.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a matter of principle, public opinion in Iran cannot accept as a guarantee the words of a head of state, let alone the United States, due to the withdrawal of Americans from the JCPOA,\u201d Amir-Abdollahian said.<\/p>\n

The Iranian foreign minister said he had told Iran\u2019s negotiators to propose to Western parties that \u201cat least their parliaments or parliament speakers, including the US Congress, can declare in the form of a political statement their commitment to the agreement and return to the JCPOA implementation\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s commitments are as clear as a mathematical formula. It is absolutely clear what we are supposed to do and how these measures will be verified through the IAEA [the UN nuclear watchdog]. Therefore the other side can have no concern; But we remain concerned primarily about the guarantees [that the US would not withdraw],”\u00a0Amir-Abdollahian said.<\/p>\n

Expressing Tehran\u2019s frustrations with Washington\u2019s position as weeks of talks in Vienna appear at risk of stalling, the\u00a0Iranian foreign minister said, \u201cWe are facing problems during this period because the other party lacks a serious initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amir-Abdollahian said that Iran wanted the negotiations to lead to the \u201ctotal lifting\u201d of sanctions. The challenge, however, was that the Biden administration was only willing to remove the economic sanctions authorised by Trump, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not all we are looking for. That Trump unilaterally and unjustly imposed sanctions on real and legal entities in Iran under some allegations as Iran\u2019s missile programme, regional issues or human rights is not acceptable,\u201d Amir-Abdollahian said. \u201cThis is also one of the challenges which remain on the negotiating table in Vienna.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amir-Abdollahian\u00a0said US officials had sent \u201cmany messages\u201d to have direct talks with Iran but ruled out any such move. \u201cOur last response to Americans and intermediaries was: any direct dialogue, contact and negotiation with the US would have very huge costs for my government,\u201d the foreign minister said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not ready to enter into the process of direct talks with the US if we do not have a clear and promising outlook to reach a good agreement with sustainable guarantees in front of us,” he added.<\/p>\n

He added that Tehran had indicated to the US that if Washington\u2019s \u201cintentions are genuine, you should take some practical and tangible steps on the ground before any direct talks and contacts can take place\u201d.<\/p>\n

This could include unfreezing billions of dollars of Iranian petrodollars stuck in foreign central banks because of Trump\u2019s sanctions or a presidential executive order to lift some of the sanctions, he said.<\/p>\n

Amir-Abdollahian\u00a0said that in \u201cgeneral, we are optimistic\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also welcome a good deal in the shortest time however this deal must uphold the rights of the Iranian people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

ZZ\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran has proposed that the US Congress makes a \u201cpolitical statement\u201d of its commitment to a nuclear accord with Tehran as talks in Vienna to revive the deal reaches a critical juncture. In an exclusive interview with the Financial Times, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian\u00a0said Washington had failed to address Iran\u2019s demand for guarantees that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}