BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general says a potential U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world countries would constitute a "great victory” for the Islamic Republic.
In the event that such a prospect materializes, "it means that Iran has achieved a great victory,” Sheikh Naim Qassem told Lebanon’s Al-Manar television network.
"And any victory for Iran is a victory for the whole (resistance) axis,” he added.
The agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action came by in July that year in Vienna. It lifted nuclear-related sanctions against Iran, which, in turn, effected some voluntary changes in its peaceful nuclear energy program.
The U.S., however, left the JCPOA in 2018 and reimposed the sanctions that the deal had relieved.
Last week, the deal’s remaining signatories launched fresh talks in the Austrian capital to examine the potential of fresh sanction relief.
The Islamic Republic says it refuse any talks with the U.S. as long as it kept the bans in place.
The parties to the talks have agreed to pick up where they have left next Wednesday.
Qassem said it would take around two months for the nuclear deal to be restored, "The Americans consider it better than the absence of any agreement at all.”