Tehran, YJC. MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi said all anti-Iran sanctions must be removed if the P5+1 group is willing to reach a final deal with the Islamic Republic over its nuclear energy program.
"If we want a definitive accord on November 24, there must be an immediate
lifting of sanctions,” AFP quoted Chairman of the National Security and Foreign
Policy Committee of Iran’s Majlis as saying at a press conference in the French
capital Paris on Wednesday.
Borujerdi described the proposal for a gradual lifting of anti-Iran bans as
"unacceptable”.
Iran and the sextet -- Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany --
are in talks to work out a final deal aimed at ending the longstanding dispute
over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program as a November 24 deadline
approaches.
On October 28, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American
Affairs Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi, a top nuclear negotiator, said the Iran-P5+1
talks should lead to the removal of sanctions against the Islamic Republic all
at once, adding that Tehran is opposed to any gradual lifting of the bans.
Sources close to the Iranian negotiating team say the main stumbling block
in the way of resolving the Western dispute over Iran’s nuclear energy program
remains to be the removal of all the bans imposed on the country and not the
number of centrifuges or the level of uranium enrichment.
Tehran wants the sanctions entirely lifted while Washington, under pressure
from the pro-Israeli lobby, insists that at least the UN-imposed sanctions
should remain in place.