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Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Iran: Automatically remove all UNSC resolution based embargoes - especially missile

Iran Asks US to Comply with Sanctions Removal Undertaking
Wed Jul 08, 2015
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940416001666

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's deputy lead negotiator Seyed Abbas Araqchi said on
Tuesday his country and the six world powers won't have a deal as long as
the US is adamant to give up its sanctions policy.

Speaking after days of marathon talks with negotiators from the six world
powers, Araqchi said the US intends to strike a deal with Iran without
giving up its sanctions policy despite earlier agreements between Tehran and
the Group 5+1 (the US, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany) in
Geneva and Lausanne that both envisaged removal of all sanctions under a
final deal.

"We are now at a highly sensitive stage and we are trying to narrow down the
gap and reach an agreement if possible," he said.

Araqchi, who is Iran's deputy foreign minister, said his country "wants all
sanctions removed. The US cannot keep the sanctions structure and reach a
deal with Iran".

He mentioned that the US wants to maintain a part of the sanctions even
after endorsing a final agreement with Tehran, stressing that Tehran would
never agree to such terms.

"The West should give up the sanctions regime completely if it is willing to
strike a deal with Iran," he stressed, reiterating that the opposite party
to the talks in the Austrian capital "needs to show it is ready to change
its approach towards its favored-sanctions policy".

Yet, the senior negotiator said Iran and the world powers have come into
terms with each other over the "removal of all financial and economic
sanctions on the day that a final deal is signed".

"But there are still differences over other sanctions, including the arms
embargoes against Iran."

Araqchi said the arms embargoes have been a blessing in disguise for Iran as
they have encouraged the country to stand on its own and achieve
extraordinary growth in its defense and weapons production industries.

"Thus," he said, "the arms embargoes themselves are not so much important to
Iran, but the point is that no sanctions should be kept if there is to be a
deal with Iran" as agreed by the US under the initial interim deal struck
between Iran and the sextet in Geneva in November 2013 and the Lausanne
statement agreed in the Swiss city in April, 2015.

The deputy chief negotiator further pointed out that there have only
remained "7 to 10 issues of difference between Iran and the G5+1, and
explained that "only 2 or 3 of them are fundamental and important".

"The rest are minor technical issues" which are not that much important, he
continued.

"What matters is that the differences have reduced now," he said.

"The main text of the draft deal is almost complete," Araqchi said, and
explained, "There are only a few more paragraphs in the main text that have
been left open and need political decision-making by the ministers."

Asked about the degree of progress in drafting the five annexations to the
main text, the negotiator said the "sanctions annex is 96% complete, with 2
to 3 small issues left undecided".

He said the same thing is true with another annex that focuses on nuclear
cooperation between Iran and the powers.

Araqchi said negotiations are still underway over the timetable for
implementing each phase of the deal, and explained that this third annex
cannot be accomplished until all other annexations and the main text are
fully drafted, "because the date for exercising a move can be specified only
when the move itself is approved".

Araqchi said Iran does not see any deadline for the talks. "We are ready to
continue the talks as long as needed."

"Deadlines are no sacred sanctuary," he said, and added, "Others (the US)
might have specified a deadline for themselves, but we are ready to stay
here as long as it takes."

"Good Agreement is the only thing that matters to us," he said.

Yet, the Iranian deputy top negotiator underscored that there won't be a
several-month or long-term extension of the talks.

Iran and the 6 world powers are in the final phase of their last round of
talks in Vienna to draft a final deal to end their over-a-decade-long
nuclear standoff.

Separately, another negotiator, who asked to remain unnamed, said that Iran
has offered "constructive proposals" to resolve the remaining differences
with the US-led West.

The Geneva interim deal envisaged the removal of all the UN and unilateral
US and EU sanctions against Iran under a final comprehensive deal.

Also, in a framework agreement approved by the six powers and Iran in April
known as the Lausanne Statement, the seven nations agreed that a final deal
would include removal of all sanctions as well as a UN Security Council
resolution which would call all the five UNSC sanctions resolutions imposed
against Iran's nuclear activities as "null and void".

The first two UNSC resolutions boycotted export of military, specially
missile, hardware and software to Iran, a sanction that - along with all the
other embargoes imposed against Iran under the five UNSC resolutions - would
be automatically removed under the new UNSC resolution that, according to
the Lausanne framework agreement, should be issued on the same day that the
final deal is endorsed.

Hence, the debate over the removal of the UN Security Council arms embargoes
against Iran means US defiance of both agreements.

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