President
Rouhani: Iran won't sign final nuclear deal unless all sanctions
lifted
RT,
9
April, 2015
Iranian
President said Tehran won’t sign a final nuclear deal unless
economic sanctions against the country are lifted first. The comments
contradict Washington’s statement that sanctions would be lifted
gradually, subject to Iran compliance.
"We
will not sign any deal unless all sanctions are lifted on the same
day ... We want a win-win deal for all parties involved in the
nuclear talks," Rouhani said in a televised speech on Thursday.
The
President's comments come as a blow to US President Barack Obama’s
efforts to sell the deal to its opponents, both in the US and abroad.
Supporters
of the deal, which was negotiated last week at marathon talks in
Switzerland and is to be finalized in June, say the sanctions relief
for Iran would be gradual, and implemented in response to Iran’s
moves to scale down its nuclear program. They could be reversed in
case of non-compliance, they argue. Obama has called the plan the
best deal possible at the moment.
The
UN Security Council, the US, the EU and several other countries had
imposed several rounds of sanctions against Iran due to its
controversial nuclear program.
Lifting
of the sanctions in exchange for a scaling-down of nuclear enrichment
activities and a degree of international control over the Iranian
nuclear industry is at the core of the deal. Agreeing exact terms on
how quickly the sanctions will be lifted and how the program will be
curtailed was a tough task for the nuclear negotiators.
Previously,
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif questioned on his Twitter
account the statements from Western leaders that claimed the
sanctions would be lifted gradually.
Iran/5+1 Statement: "US will cease the application of ALL nuclear-related secondary economic and financial sanctions." Is this gradual?
Iran/5+1 Statement: "US will cease the application of ALL nuclear-related secondary economic and financial sanctions." Is this gradual?
This
is what CNN is saying -
A
U.S. military campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities would only
take "several days" of bombing, Sen. Tom Cotton said
Tuesday.
Cotton,
the Arkansas Republican freshman who has emerged as a leading critic
of President Barack Obama's effort to strike a deal to thwart Iran's
nuclear ambitions, told the Family Research Council's Washington
Watch radio that Obama's assertion that the alternative to the pact
is war is a "false choice."
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