Nuclear Accord Must Lift All Sanctions Harming Iran's Economy –Govt. Spokesman

All sanctions hurting Iran's economy must be lifted in any agreement to revive Tehran's 2015 nuclear accord, an Iranian government spokesman said on Tuesday. "Any sanctions that ...deal a blow to Iran's economic benefits from the (nuclear) deal must be lifted," cabinet spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi told a news briefing carried live on a state-run website.  Also, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi told gas exporters on Tuesday to avoid any “cruel” sanctions such as those imposed by the United States on Tehran, and his government said any revival of Iran’s 2015 nuclear accord with world powers must lift such curbs.  “The members of this forum should not recognize those sanctions...(because) in today’s world we see that the sanctions are not going to be effective,” Raisi told a gas exporters conference in Doha.

Reuters reported last week that a U.S.-Iranian deal is taking shape in Vienna after months of indirect talks to revive the nuclear pact abandoned in 2018 by then-U.S. President Donald Trump, who also re-imposed extensive sanctions on Iran. The 2015 deal between Iran and world powers limited Tehran’s enrichment of uranium to make it harder for it to develop material for nuclear weapons, if it chose to, in return for a lifting of international sanctions against Tehran.

“Any sanctions that ... deal a blow to Iran’s economic benefits from the (nuclear) deal must be lifted,” cabinet spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi told a news briefing carried live on a state-run website.
A draft text of the agreement also alluded to other issues, including unfreezing billions of dollars in Iranian funds in South Korean banks, and the release of Western prisoners held in Iran. - Reuters