Russia plans to discuss the issue of lifting sanctions on Iran
As reported yesterday by RIA "News"Moscow expressed its readiness to discuss the possibility of lifting unilateral sanctions against Iran - provided that the Iranian side puts the nuclear program under full IAEA control. This discussion will be held in upcoming negotiations with the six mediating countries. This was announced yesterday by Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Ryabkov.The deputy minister reminded that in the election article “Russia and the changing world”, Vladimir Putin said that the world community could recognize Iran’s right to work on uranium enrichment - when setting up Tehran’s nuclear program under IAEA safeguards.
Ryabkov said that there is a compromise that could allow the parties to agree. However, Ryabkov noted, another component is also important: when forming this kind of agreement, the international community can cancel the sanctions, including one-sided ones.
The deputy minister noted that such an idea is “absolutely productive”. Moscow will study the approaches to this idea of partners in the framework of the intermediary "six". Russia is now interested in having Iran and the countries of the six reach an agreement on the timing of negotiations as soon as possible.
The United States and other Western countries still suspect Iran of carrying out the latest nuclear weaponscovered by the program of the peaceful atom. Tehran has consistently rejected these allegations, responding to opponents that Iran’s nuclear program is aimed exclusively at peaceful purposes (electricity generation).
A number of organizations and countries regarding Iran have adopted resolutions that require ensuring full transparency of the nuclear program and evidence of its exclusively peaceful nature. In mid-February, the US expanded the list of sanctions against Iran and introduced additional measures against the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security. Now 4 sanctions resolutions of the UN Security Council are acting against Iran.
On February 10, a delegation of IAEA inspectors visited the capital of Iran. The purpose of the visit was to participate in the negotiations on the nuclear program. The trip was the second expert visit to Tehran lately.
After this visit, the IAEA stated that delegates requested access to the Parchin facility, but the Iranian government did not give them permission.
According to the information of the Iranian agency “ISNA”, Ali Asghar Soltaniye, a representative of the Islamic Republic at the IAEA, said that the IAEA inspectors themselves refused to visit the Parchin complex.
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