“Lifting the arms embargo will allow Iran to increase its defence capability in the fight against terrorism”, he said.
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Mr Putin said he hoped a permanent agreement on Tehran’s nuclear programme would be reached soon, a Kremlin spokesman said.
While all evidence and media reports showed an agreement being reached in recent, USA stance on the deal drastically changed following US Secretary of States John Kerry’s phone conversation with US President Obama.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Friday for sanctions on Iran to be lifted as soon as possible after a deal is reached on Tehran’s nuclear program. Tom Cotton said in an interview.
According to the ICEJ, more than 80,000 Christians from dozens of countries worldwide signed on to the petition, which was delivered to the foreign ministers of the Western countries involved in the nuclear talks. Ted Cruz of Texas, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said in an interview. For the United States and its regional allies, the goal is to restrict Iran’s ability to obtain nuclear weapons, which the Islamic Republic denies seeking.
The sanctions, passed in a series of resolutions by the UN Security Council beginning nine years ago, ban the shipment of conventional arms into and out of Iran.
“We’re making progress”, he said, adding, however, that, “It seems we are staying here for the weekend”.
“That said, we are working collectively on a way forward on this hard issue”, the senior western official said.
Over the past two weeks, Iran, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russian Federation and China have twice extended a deadline for completing a long-term deal under which Tehran would curb sensitive nuclear activities for more than a decade in exchange for sanctions relief.
Negotiators of six world powers and Iran are in the 12th day of their latest bid to craft a final agreement, having given themselves an extension beyond Tuesday’s deadline.
The arms embargo “should be among the first steps taken in lifting the sanctions regime”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Thursday in Ufa, Russia.
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To Zarif, the arms embargo, including on ballistic missile technology, is part of the “nuclear-related sanctions” imposed on Iran starting in 2006, as the United States slowly assembled partners to force Iran to limit its then-nascent nuclear enrichment program.
