Six Conditions for Vienna Agreement

TEHRAN -- Iranian lawmakers on Sunday set conditions for the revival of a 2015 nuclear pact, including legal guarantees approved by the U.S. Congress that Washington would not quit it.
Iran and the remaining signatories of the 2015 nuclear agreement have engaged in talks in Vienna over the past year to revive it which then-U.S. President Donald Trump left in 2018.
Negotiations have now stalled as Washington is refusing to take the necessary political decisions to settle remaining issues.
“The United States should give legal guarantees, approved by its ... Congress, that it will not exit the pact again,” Tasnim news agency quoted a statement signed by 250 lawmakers out of a total of 290.
The letter also said that under a revived pact the United States should not be able to “use pretexts to trigger the snapback mechanism”, under which sanctions on Iran would be immediately reinstated.
The lawmakers also said that “sanctions lifted under the reinstated pact should not be reimposed and Iran should not be hit by new sanctions”.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said Washington is “imposing new conditions” in the negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement.
“On the issue of removing sanctions, they (the Americans) are interested in proposing and imposing new conditions outside the negotiations,” he said.
“In the last two or three weeks, the American side has made excessive demands that contradict some paragraphs of the text,” he said.
The Vienna negotiations aim to return the United States to the nuclear deal, including through the removal of sanctions on Iran.
They have been paused since March 11 as the U.S. has refused to take a political decision to undo its wrongs.
“The Americans keep talking about the need for direct negotiations, but we have not seen the benefit of direct talks with the United States,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
“We seek the removal of sanctions, but with dignity and with a lasting agreement,” the foreign minister said, adding that “Iran has stood and will stand by its red lines”.
Amir-Abdollahian also said during his recent visit to Moscow, “we agreed with the Russian side that if we reached an agreement in Vienna, Russia would not be an obstacle”.
Among the key sticking points is Tehran’s demand to delist the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps from a US terror list.
The foreign minister said U.S. President Joe Biden should issue

executive orders to remove some sanctions on Iran to show his goodwill towards reviving the nuclear pact.

In their Friday statement, the Iranian MPs pointed to Washington’s imposition of new sanctions on Iranian individuals and institutions in the course of the Vienna talks.

They said it is necessary that the imposition of new sanctions against Iran be banned under the new agreement. The agreement must also guarantee that the lifted sanctions would not be reimposed, they added.

The MPs also noted that Tehran must have the right to export its oil to any country and at any amount agreed upon by the OPEC members. The Islamic Republic must be able to receive the oil revenue through the international banking system, they said.

Iran is entitled to transfer of all financial resources and interests, including revenues from the oil sales and blocked assets from all countries, they said, adding that the negotiating countries must remove obstacles in this path.

“Therefore and without a doubt, oral promises, including the remarks made by the US president, cannot be considered as a guarantee” for the success of the deal, the Iranian lawmakers said.

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Six Conditions for Vienna Agreement