Iran's Raisi calls on US to lift sanctions to revive nuclear deal

VIENNA, 22 February 2022, (TON): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that talks in Vienna on reviving Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers cannot succeed unless the United States is prepared to lift sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Reuters reported last week that a US-Iranian deal is taking shape in Vienna after months of indirect talks to revive a pact Washington abandoned in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump.

Raisi said in a joint news conference with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Doha "the United States must prove its will to lift major sanctions.”

"To reach an agreement, guarantees are necessary for negotiations and nuclear issues."

The draft text of the agreement also alluded to other issues, including unfreezing billions of dollars in Iranian funds in South Korean banks, and the release of Western prisoners held in Iran.

Raisi said "Aggression is bound to fail. Resistance has brought results and none of the regional issues have a military solution.”

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