Baku, Azerbaijan, May 24
Trend:
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has announced six conditions for Iran to remain in the nuclear deal which must be met by the Europe.
He announced the conditions in a meeting with the government authorities and officials in Tehran, the official website of the leader reported.
Khamenei reminded that after the signing of the nuclear deal in 2015, Germany, France and the UK remained silent towards violation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA or nuclear deal) by the US during the last two years.
The US has rejected the Resolution 2231 of the UN Security Council (endorses JCPOA, set out an inspection process and schedule while also preparing for removal of UN sanctions against Iran), he said, adding that the three European countries need to issue a resolution in the UN Security Council against the US’s violation.
“Europe must promise not to raise the issues of missiles and regional affairs of the Islamic Republic,” Khamenei said.
He further said that Europe must counter any sanction against the Islamic Republic and explicitly stand to the US’s sanctions.
Khamenei went on to say that Europe must also compensate for Iran's probable loss of oil revenues.
“If the US can damage the sale of our oil, we must be able to sell as much oil as we want. Europeans must guarantee that they compensate for the loss, and that they buy Iran’s oil,” Khamenei said.
As the next condition, Khamenei said that European banks must guarantee transactions with the Islamic Republic.
“We have no conflicts with regard to these three countries (UK, France and Germany), but we do not trust them, based on previous experience,” he added.
The US President Donald Trump announced May 8 that the United States walks away from the accord reached in 2015 between Tehran and the six world powers. Trump also announced that the US re-imposes the "highest level of economic sanctions" on the Islamic Republic.
Following the US decision, Khamenei said that "It is not logical to continue the implementation of the JCPOA without receiving enough guarantees from three European countries, the UK, France, and Germany."