Iran and the US insist that the other side must return to full compliance under the notorious nuclear deal.
Tehran, Iran – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran can only respond to positive action by other parties to their nuclear deal in 2015 as it has seen promises before.
Khamenei said at a televised speech on Wednesday that Iran has heard a lot of “good speech and promises” that have not only been broken, but the opposite has happened.
“This time just action.” If we see action from the other side, we will act too. The Islamic Republic will not be satisfied with promises of action, ”he told the Tabriz family on the anniversary of their protests in 1978 which are considered one of the events that led to the uprising a year later. sin.
In 2018, former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers – which provided sanctions relief as a reward for loopholes on Iran’s nuclear program – and again harsh sanctions on the country that are still in place today.
U.S. President-General Joe Biden’s administration has said it wants to restore the historic treaty but urges Iran to return to all promises it began to reinstate in 2019 before accepting lift sanctions.
In early February, Khamenei said it was Iran’s “definitive policy” on the Joint Action Plan (JCPOA), as the treaty is formally known, that the U.S. must first lift sanctions by that they broke the agreement unilaterally.
However, Iran has also suggested that the head of the European Union’s foreign policy and the head of the JCPOA Joint Commission Josep Borrell “choreograph” return at the same time to full compliance under the agreement with both sides.
Khamenei’s comments come as Iran is on track to halt the further voluntary implementation of the Protocol, which will give extensive investigative authorities to the DA’s nuclear watchdog.
According to a law passed by parliament in December following the assassination of leading nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran will restrict – but not stop – studies from 23 February.
‘No place for nuclear weapons’
Kazem Gharib Abadi, Iran’s representative to the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), has told the group about the move.
He said Tuesday that Iran will suspend some “transparency measures” related to yellow cake production and uranium enrichment as well as part centrifuge construction and briefing studies.
IAEA Director Rafael Grossi he will visit Ioran Saturday to find a solution.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday confirmed the limitation of forthcoming investigations but stressed that Iran will never seek nuclear weapons.
“As we have said many times, there is and will be no place for weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, in our nation’s defense program,” he said in a televised cabinet speech.
“This has always been our united view that we will never be after nuclear weapons, but we will be after peaceful nuclear technologies because it is our right.”
Rouhani said Iran does not want to have any secret nuclear program, and a Khamenei fatwa that bans weapons of mass destruction would always be in its place.
Western powers, however, have previously said they believe Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program unveiled in 2003.
Last week, Iran’s intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi said that a “cornered cat” would do unbelievable things and that if Western powers drive Iran towards a nuclear bomb it would be up to them.
His remarks sparked fire from inside and outside Iran and several officials reiterated that Khamenei’s fatwa remains unchanged.