Iran to not expel IAEA inspectors

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 17

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What was signed on July 15, 2015 (JCPOA) is irreversible, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stated.

“When Trump withdrew the JCPOA underneath the strain of the Saudi Arabia and Iran hawks inside the US and Israel, we had been on the United Nations on the finish of September 2018 (to attend UN annual basic meeting), Trump despatched us a message eight occasions to fulfill at evening,” President Hassan Rouhani stated this morning in the course of the weekly assembly of the cupboard, Pattern stories citing IRNA.

“The French President Emanuel Macron requested me to agree with a gathering (with Trump). A number of presidents got here to our lodge room and requested us on behalf of Donald Trump so as to add a number of phrases in Nuclear Deal,” he stated.

He went on to say that Trump needed Iran to barter the missile and the regional points throughout the JCPOA framework.

“I stated that no phrase might be added or subtracted in any approach,” Rouhani stated.

He addressed the EU nations and added that Europeans ought to know that if Iran raised the problem of missiles and the area within the framework of JCPOA, Trump himself would return to the deal. He famous that the present JCPOA is not going to be modified both the EU accepts or not.

Referring to a telephone speak along with his Swiss counterpart Man Parmelin, Rouhani stated that if the sanctions are actually lifted by the US, Iran will resume the commitments that it has decreased underneath the deal.

“People ought to explicitly declare and take steps to meet their obligations,” he stated including that Iran additionally will fulfill all its obligations after the US.

“Folks mustn’t doubt that the US has no selection however to return to JCPOA,” he added.

In one other a part of his remarks, referring to the parliament’s legislation on lifting sanctions, Rouhani stated that in paragraph 6 of this legislation, Iran should withdraw from the Further Protocol on February 23.

“What is going to occur between Iran and IAEA, might be primarily based on safeguards,” Rouhani stated.

Saying that Iran is not going to expel any inspectors, Rouhani stated that nation will settle for the director-general of the IAEA to return to Tehran and negotiate.

“We are not looking for our nuclear program to be unmonitored. Expelling the inspectors, means we’re in search of a nuclear weapon,” he famous.