Tehran, Iran, Oct. 21
By Mehdi Sepahvand -- Trend:
A nuclear commentator said opponents of the JCPOA inside Iran and the US would not stop creating problems for governments in implementing the deal.
Despite clear facts, these opponents will not see the deal as accomplished and at every turn they will set up huge media barrage against their governments, Ahamadi Shirzad, commentator and university professor told Trend Oct. 21.
"We saw that in the last two months, the center of the wave against the JCPOA was in JCPOA commission of the Parliament itself," the former Iranian MP added.
"The staunchest opponents were in the commission, some were not members but would attend the sessions, and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting was all at their service where it was mostly the opponents who were covered in their footage."
Although it was a high-level government consensus and bodies such as the Supreme National Security Council had supported it, tribunes were in the hands of opponents, Shirzad said.
This week Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the passage of the law to adopt the JCPOA was a decision made at the highest governmental levels of the country.
Shirzad said the opponents, especially in the Parliament tried as much as they could to show a horrible image of the JCPOA and present it as a shameful failure for Iran. In implementation there are serious problems, but not as serious as before, he added.
The opponents on both sides will not see the job as accomplished, at every turn they will start campaigning, he noted.
"The Arak heavy water reactor will be changed so to use enriched uranium. So plutonium production problems will be obviated, and Iran 's enriched stockpile will be used," the professor said.
A day earlier, however, Deputy FM and Head of Iran's JCPOA Implementation Commission Abbas Araqchi had said that Iran has decided to sell its uranium stockpile instead of diluting it.
In the meantime, Iran, China, and the US have formed a committee to pursue the reactor's redesign, to be fulfilled in a couple of months.
Shirzad also commented on the Iranian government's adoption of the Additional Protocol of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, saying that due to powerful opponents in the Parliament, the Iranian government should not send a bill on the Additional Protocol to the Parliament. The government for now will write a letter announcing it will adopt it temporarily, he said.
"I think the letter is already written. Iran has previously adopted it voluntarily," he added.
The adoption of the Additional Protocol will come as part of Iran's efforts to build trust with the IAEA, whose report of Iran's peaceful nuclear program is necessary for the group P5+1 (the US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany) to lift sanctions on Iran according to the JCPOA.
Edited by CN