Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that addresses in Vienna on reviving Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers can not succeed unless the United States is prepared to lift warrants on the Islamic Republic.
Reuters reported last week that a US-Iranian deal is taking shape in Vienna after months of circular addresses to revive a pact Washington abandoned in 2018 under also-President Donald Trump.
“The United States must prove its will to lift major warrants,” Raisi said in a common news conference with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Doha.
“To reach an agreement, guarantees are necessary for accommodations and nuclear issues.”
The draft textbook of the agreement also indicated other issues, including unfreezing billions of bones in Iranian finances in South Korean banks, and the release of Western captures held in Iran.
” Aggression is bound to fail. Resistance has brought results and none of the indigenous issues have a military result,” Raisi said.
Raisi was more conservative than Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh, who said before that the Vienna accommodations had made” significant progress”.
Khatibzadeh also said that” nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”in the Vienna addresses.” The remaining issues are the hardest,” he told a daily press briefing.
Khatibzadeh said that Iran’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, handles the Vienna addresses. It reports directly to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The 2015 deal between Iran and world powers limited Tehran’s enrichment of uranium to make it harder for it to develop material for nuclear munitions, in return for a lifting of transnational warrants against Tehran.
Iran is ready to change captures with the United States, Iran’s foreign minister said on Saturday, adding that addresses to revive the nuclear deal could succeed”at the foremost possible time” if the United States made the necessary political opinions.
Speaking from Doha on the sidelines of a gas conference, Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji called the warrants a violation of transnational law and trouble to global energy security, thesemi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Iran has violated some of the deal’s nuclear limits since the United States withdrew from it and reimposed warrants under Trump.
Israel, Iran’sarch-foe and extensively believed to have its own nuclear magazine, has been nearly watching the Vienna addresses. It’s pressing Washington about the terms of an arising Iranian nuclear deal, Israeli officers said on Monday, raising the prospect of a bilateral day-after agreement with Washington to address their worries.
While not a party to the addresses, Israel has conferred with the US administration to stop the gap of applying further leverage over any reanimation of the deal with Tehran reached over its expostulations.
