Parliament’s Okay for Final Iran-Sextet N. Deal Necessary: MP


Parliament’s Okay for Final Iran-Sextet N. Deal Necessary: MP

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A top Iranian legislator insisted that the final draft of a future comprehensive agreement between Tehran and world powers over Iran’s nuclear program should be submitted to the country’s parliament before the parties clinch any deal.

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Monday, member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Saleh Jokar said the country’s nuclear negotiators should not ink a final, long-awaited deal with the major world powers without the approval of Iran’s parliament.

“Before Iran’s negotiating delegates reach an agreement with the other side in the nuclear negotiations, the text of that deal should be discussed and approved by the society’s lawmakers and elites,” Jokar pointed out.

He argued that the team of nuclear negotiators should brief the Iranian nation on the latest developments in the course of talks.

Moreover, the Iranian legislators should be provided with the documents of the negotiations in every step of the talks, Jokar stressed.  

The latest round of nuclear talks between delegations representing Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, the US, Britain, China, France and Germany) wrapped up in the Austrian capital of Vienna on April 9.

The negotiating parties are slated to convene the next meeting on May 13, again in Vienna, to start drafting the text of an ultimate deal on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program.

The two sides on November 24, 2013, clinched an interim six-month deal in the Swiss city of Geneva.

The breakthrough deal (the Joint Plan of Action), which has come into effect since January 20, stipulates that over the course of six months, Iran and the six countries will draw up a comprehensive nuclear deal which will lead to a lifting of the whole sanctions on Iran.

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