“Joint Fact Sheet” to Follow Possible Iran Nuclear Deal: Source
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Should Iran and six world powers manage to clinch a lasting agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program, a joint fact sheet will be released to prevent different interpretations on the accord, a source familiar with the negotiations said.
While the diplomatic talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) are approaching the final stage, the source close to the negotiations said in Vienna on Friday that the possible deal will come with a joint fact sheet.
That will prevent the document from being open to interpretation, the source added.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (also known as the P5+1 or E3+3) are in talks to strike a comprehensive nuclear agreement, with the parties pushing hard to finalize the text of the long-awaited deal until July 7.
On April 2, the two sides reached a framework nuclear agreement in Lausanne, Switzerland, which provides a series of solutions as the basis of the 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.
