Tehran, YJC. Majlis decided to speed up discussions on a motion that, if approved, would have the government to guard the country’s nuclear rights.
173 out of the 205 present
legislators voted ‘yes’ to the motion as support for giving it urgency status
so that it would take precedence over regular ones.
If approved, the new bill will make
the government cancel the Geneva interim deal in case U.S. imposes new
sanctions and compel it to speed up nuclear activities which were limited as
part of the agreement.
The bill holds that if the talks
fail the government would be forced to resume its 20% uranium enrich program
and restrict IAEA inspections of the nuclear sites beyond the Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT).
Iranian MPs also maintained that a
"complete and quick” lifting of sanctions should be the basis for any
comprehensive nuclear deal.
Iran and the 5+1 group (the United
States, Russia, China, France, Britain, and Germany) have been holding talks to
secure a final comprehensive deal over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
Since the interim deal was sealed in
Geneva in November 2013, the negotiating sides have missed two self-imposed
deadlines to ink a final agreement.
Under the Geneva agreement, the six
countries accepted to ease sanctions against Iran in return for the Islamic
Republic to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities.