Million-Signature "Nat'l Fact Sheet" on Nuclear Deal Unveiled in Iran (+Photos)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran on Tuesday unveiled a "national fact sheet" with millions of signatures that outlines the essential requirements for a possible final nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers.
Millions of signatures endorsing the Iranian fact sheet were displayed in a ceremony at Tehran's Azadi square on Tuesday morning.
People of different social strata, including families of martyred Iranian nuclear scientists and more than 17,000 jurists, have signed the document, which includes six provisions.
The fact sheet stipulates that a lasting nuclear agreement between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) should have the anti-Iran sanctions terminated, not suspended, immediately and all at once.
It also rejects any restriction on the country's research and development activities in the nuclear field and opposes monitoring of Iran's nuclear program beyond the international regulations.
On April 2, Iran and the six powers reached a framework nuclear agreement in Lausanne, Switzerland, with both sides committed to push for a final, comprehensive accord until the end of June.
The framework provides a series of solutions as the basis of a final deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Following the Lausanne talks, the US Department of State issued a fact sheet that emphasized Iranian concessions and referred to sanctions being "suspended" rather than terminated and only after confirmation that Tehran has complied with the terms of the agreement.
However, the Iranian diplomats dismissed such an interpretation of the agreement.
In a televised interview on April 2, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif debunked the US fact sheet, stressing that the framework agreement stipulates that all anti-Iran sanctions should be terminated under a final deal.
"In fact, the Americans brought what they desired in the fact sheet," he had noted.
