US Malpractice Worst Threat to Any Deal, Iran’s Shamkhani Says
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani slammed the “proven American malpractice” as the main threat to any agreement as efforts are underway in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and lift the sanctions against Tehran.
“The real lifting of sanctions means that Iran will enjoy credible and sustainable economic benefits,” Shamkhani said in a post on his Twitter account on Tuesday.
“Proven American malpractice is the most important threat to any agreement,” he noted.
“Verification and providing a guarantee is an integral part of a Good Deal,” the Iranian official underscored.
Iran and the remaining participants to the JCPOA have been holding talks in Vienna since April last year with the aim of reviving the deal by bringing the US into full compliance.
The US left the JCPOA in May 2018 under former president Donald Trump. The Vienna talks began on a promise by Trump’s successor, Joe Biden, to rejoin the deal and repeal the so-called maximum pressure campaign against Iran. Biden, however, has so far failed to undo Trump’s own undoing of Barack Obama’s Iran policy, which led to the JCPOA in June 2015.
The eighth round of the Vienna talks began on December 27 with a focus on the removal of all sanctions that the United States had imposed on Iran after its unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA. The US is not allowed to directly attend the talks due to its pullout in 2018 from the deal with Iran.
