Tehran, YJC. The French president has said that lifting sanctions on Iran is not discussed in terms of time.
The Iranians want sanctions to be lifted immediately,”
Laurent Fabius told Europe 1 radio station.
"We say to them: we will ease the sanctions as you respect
what you have agreed to and if you don’t live up to your commitments, of course
we can return to the situation we had before, AFP reported him as having said.
"On this point, there is not yet a deal,” said Fabius.
Fabius spoke after Thursday’s agreement aimed at curbing
Iran’s nuclear drive, hailed by negotiators as "historic.”
Under the framework, Iran agreed to sharply curtail its
nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions that have crippled the
country’s economy.
France, which presents itself as one of the more hawkish of
the world powers negotiating the deal, has warned that sanctions will be
reimposed if Tehran fails to live up to its side of the bargain.
"We are going in the right direction … but we are not yet at
the end of the road,” stressed Fabius.
The main outlines agreed after eight days of talks that
sometimes went through the night in the Swiss city of Lausanne now have to be
finalized in a highly complex agreement by June 30