Iran To Consider 'Other Options' If West Delays Nuclear Agreement
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By Trend
A senior Iranian lawmaker on Sunday urged Western countries to
refrain from delays in reaching a nuclear agreement, warning that
otherwise, Iran would consider 'other options', Trend reports citing Xinhua
Mahmoud Abbaszadeh Meshkini, a member of the Iranian
Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told
the official IRNA news agency that a win-win agreement is important
for securing Iran's national interests.
'The Westerners need negotiations more than Iran ... if the
Western side does not make an agreement, we have other options on
the table, and Iran's hands are not empty in this regard,' he
noted.
'Any agreement that deprives and limits Iran of the desired
privileges will not be accepted by the Iranian nation,' he
added.
In response to the question about safeguard issues, he said that
solving the safeguards issues can 'repair the damaged wall of trust
between Iran and the West.'
Iran has repeatedly said that reports of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about traces of uranium in some of its
nuclear sites in the past are 'political' and this case should be
closed simultaneously with the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal,
formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA).
Iran and the United States are indirectly exchanging views about
a recent EU proposal aimed at resolving the outstanding issues on
the revival of the JCPOA.
Iran signed the deal with world powers in July 2015, agreeing to
curb its nuclear program in return for the removal of sanctions on
the country. However, former U.S. President Donald Trump pulled
Washington out of the agreement and reimposed unilateral sanctions
on Tehran, prompting the latter to drop some of its commitments
under the pact.
The talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal began in April
2021 in Vienna but were suspended in March this year because of
political differences between Tehran and Washington.
The latest round of the nuclear talks was held in the Austrian
capital in early August after a five-month hiatus. On Aug. 8, the
EU put forward a 'final text' of the draft decision on reviving the
2015 nuclear deal.
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