MADRID, Aug. 31 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amirabdolahian explained on Wednesday that, after receiving the counterproposal from the United States, which is already being examined “with due care and speed”, Tehran needs “stronger guarantees” from Washington. for the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal.
“We are serious about reaching a good, strong and stable agreement. One of the issues that was taken into consideration in our exchange with the negotiating parties, but which we must strengthen in the text, is that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA ) should distance himself from his (current) behavior,” he said.
In this sense, he explained that the nuclear body “should focus solely on its duties and responsibilities”, so Tehran will not allow “any party” to interfere in the sphere of Iran’s independence, according to the Mehr news agency.
Amirabdolahian, during a press conference together with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, thus referred to the IAEA’s investigations into the traces of enriched uranium found in three undeclared places.
On Sunday it was announced that the agreement could include four phases “to build trust between the parties” and would fully enter into force 165 days after its signing. Iran would release several prisoners and return to the terms of the pact in exchange for maintaining its current ‘stock’ of uranium and the lifting of sanctions, while the Iranian Revolutionary Guard would remain on the list of terrorist organizations.
This draft could change in the face of the final agreement, since Iran is currently reviewing the response presented by the United States to an initial agreement text presented by the European Union, the content of which was partially published by the newspaper ‘Haaretz’.
Although an exact date is not yet known, Iran could give its opinion on the US review in early September, Iranian media outlet Nour News, affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), reported on Sunday.
World powers have spent nearly 18 months trying to broker a deal that would restore strict limits on Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for the United States relaxing some of its sanctions on the Persian republic’s economy, including on its exports of Petroleum.
Source: Europa Press
