Sanctions on Iran need to be lifted after end of N. talks
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
Wed 15 Apr 2015 - 14:15
TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated that 'cruel sanctions' on Iran need to be lifted after end of the talks between Iran and G5+1.
"The world, G5+1, the US House of Representatives, Senate, President and administration should know that there will be no agreement if agreement does not end sanctions," Rouhani told large crowds of people in northern Gilan Province on Wednesday.
"End of the talks and the time of signing agreement should be the time of ending cruel sanctions against the great Iranian nation."
Six major world powers along with Iran finally adopted a joint statement after marathon talks in the Swiss city of Lausanne early April.
The statement was read out in a joint press conference by the EU high representative, Federica Mogherini, and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
The two sides will start drafting the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the near future to meet a July 1 deadline.
The greatest achievement of the Lausanne talks, as most experts say, was that Iran managed to secure its right to enrich uranium to the 3.67% level. According to the joint statement, Iran has agreed to reduce the number of its centrifuges from the current 19,000 to 5,000-some operating ones.
Furthermore, Fordow nuclear facility will be turned into a research center for nuclear science and physics. More than 1,000 centrifuges will be maintained at this facility and two centrifuge cascades will keep operating; and the heavy water reactor in the Iranian city of Arak will remain in place but will be redesigned and updated to produce a minimized amount of plutonium. Iran will also implement the Additional Protocol temporarily and voluntarily in line with its confidence-building measures.
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