(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 1. There is no chancefor the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action(JCPOA) between Iran and the 5+1 group (the US, France, the UK,Russia, China, and Germany), former head of the National Securityand Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament, former MPHeshmatollah Falahatpisheh said, Trend reports.
According to Falahatpisheh, with the election of Joseph Biden asPresident of the United States and Ibrahim Raisi as President ofIran, both parties had an opportunity to reestablish the JCPOA, these opportunities were wasted for various reasons.
Falahatpisheh further stated that the JCPOA has been withdrawn fromthe agenda. If the debate over Iran's nuclear program persists,negotiations can be resumed in a different framework, as severalclauses of the JCPOA have expired and the nature of Iran's nuclearprogram has changed.
To note, the Comprehensive Plan of Joint Action on Iran'snuclear program was implemented between Iran and the P5+1 group(the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, andGermany) in January 2016. The US announced in May 2018 that it waswithdrawing from the plan and imposed sanctions on Iran in Novemberof the same year. Iran has announced that there will be norestrictions on the Iran nuclear deal in 2020.
The Iranian parliament established a strategic strategy tooppose the sanctions in late 2020, citing the failure to meet theJoint Comprehensive Strategy of Action (JCPOA) signed by Iran andsix other nations, as well as the imposition of sanctions againstIran.
According to the Iranian parliament's vote, Iran haltedimplementing extra safeguards and protocols specified in thenuclear deal on February 23. As a result, the International AtomicEnergy Agency's monitoring system was cut by 20-30 percent.
Based on Article 26 of the nuclear accord, if one party fails tomeet its responsibilities, the other party may suspend all or partof them.
Following Article 36 of the nuclear deal, if Iran believes thatthe P5+1 has failed to fulfill its obligations under the nuclearagreement, it can raise the issue with the joint commission.
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