MPs ask for stronger guarantees for Iran in Vienna talks

Nearly 200 Iranian lawmakers asked the administration to push for stronger guarantees in the course of the Vienna talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, insisting that the country’s red lines must be observed in the negotiations.

According to Tasnim news agency, more than 190 parliamentarians have signed the letter, urging President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi to ensure that the parties involved in the Vienna talks give Iran stronger guarantees.

The lawmakers have insisted that the Iranian government’s red lines should be taken into account and the national interests must be fulfilled in the nuclear negotiations.

The Vienna talks, meant to resurrect the JCPOA, were paused in March for an undetermined period of time despite reports suggesting that they were in the “final stages.”

The United States, which is blamed for the current stalemate, is reluctant to take confidence-building measures due to its erroneous bias, procrastination in decision-making and excessive demands.

Iranian officials have repeatedly said the US needs to remove all illegal sanctions against the Islamic Republic in a verifiable manner and offer guarantees that a new US administration will not breach the JCPOA again before it can rejoin the deal.

Former US President Donald Trump unilaterally left the JCPOA in May 2018 and re-imposed the anti-Iran sanctions that the deal had lifted. He also placed additional sanctions on Iran under other pretexts not related to the nuclear case as part of his “maximum pressure” campaign.

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