Addressing the Iranian nation in a live televised show Tuesday night, Rouhani offered gratitude to lawmakers for adopting a bill earlier in the day for the implementation of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear deal with the world powers, known under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speaks with Hossein Fereydoun (C), the brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R), before the Secretary and Foreign Minister addressed an worldwide press corps gathered at the Austria Center in Vienna, Austria, July 14, 2015. The 12-member council must sign off on all bills before they become law.
Khamenei has the final word in all matters of state policy.
The deal, which will lift nuclear-related sanctions in return for Tehran, which has always denied seeking an atomic bomb, curbing its nuclear activities.
Iran has maintained that its nuclear efforts are exclusively for peaceful purposes, such as energy generation.
Kerry insisted that “not a meeting went by, literally not a meeting, where we did not raise the issue of our citizens who are being held in Iran”.
The outlines of the document were approved by Iran’s Parliament on October 12.
The legislation grants responsibility for implementing the nuclear accord to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council – the top security body in Iran, which is headed by Rohani.
The JCPOA was reached between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany) on July 14.
The ink hasn’t yet dried and it is already manifest that Obama’s Iran deal is a farce that provides aid and comfort to a committed enemy of the United States.
Iran has moved a step closer to opening up its economy for business, after its parliament passed a bill approving a nuclear deal with six world powers this morning.
The draft bill also says Iran should resume all nuclear activity that it would halt as part of the deal, if the other side fails to meet its obligations to lift sanctions. The broadcast said the facility is one of hundreds of underground missile bases around the country.
“…Everybody from the USA government who has interactions with the Iranians have consistently raised these cases”. It should not take more than one or two months until sanctions are removed.
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The administration has pushed back on the argument of many lawmakers that the release of the Americans should have occurred before the US met Iran at the nuclear negotiating table.
