Iran: "Opposing the gradual lifting of sanctions" | Israel today

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has rejected any interim possibility of lifting US sanctions "step by step", stressing: "We will return to negotiations only if the sanctions are lifted together and in full"

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Iran hardens positions:

Iranian Foreign Ministry announced today (Saturday) that it opposes the removal of US sanctions "step by step", and that it demands that the US remove the sanctions in full, the state-run Channel Tv reported. , It will agree to renegotiate the nuclear deal. 

As early as yesterday, a source from the Islamic Republic said that negotiations on the nuclear deal would not be resumed until US sanctions were lifted.

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"As the United States has imposed the sanctions without negotiations, it must now remove them without negotiations," the source said yesterday.

The Wall Street Journal reports that senior officials from all sides of the nuclear deal - including Iran, the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China - will meet in Vienna next week. 

However, the talks between the US representatives and those from the Islamic Republic will be indirect and will be conducted through intermediaries, as reported in the New York Times.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif and his deputy Abbas Arkady have all claimed that there will be no American representative in Vienna. 

Earlier today, at a virtual conference, senior officials from Iran, China, Russia, France and the United Kingdom met to discuss the possibility of returning the United States to the nuclear deal.