Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 8
By Umid Niayesh, Trend:
An Iranian lawmaker has said the Parliament will address the country's nuclear deal - called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - in late September.
The JCPOA is under study in a special commission in the Parliament. The JCPOA Special commission is busy studying the plan and it is yet to be decided whether the Parliament accepts or rejects it, MP Mohammad Hassan Asafari told Trend Sept. 8.
The MP, who is a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, did not make clear whether the Parliament would pass a law on the deal or merely provide consultative recommendations to the government.
The public will be informed of the final decision and the reasons behind it, he stated.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sept.3 that he favored a parliamentary vote on the nuclear deal, putting an end to disputes over the justifiability of a parliamentary vote on the deal.
Some parties inside Iran argue that the nuclear deal should be ratified by parliament as a law while Iranian President Hassan Rouhani believes that passing the nuclear deal as a law in the parliament is not in favor of the government.
"The passing of the JCPOA into law by the parliament will only lay pressure on the government. It will be a move in favor of the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany) since while none of the P5+1 government has signed the deal, the parliament move if accomplished would mean that the Iranian president and foreign minister would have to sign it," Rouhani said Aug. 29.
Edited by CN