New York (UN). September 21. INTERFAX-Tehran wants to conduct such negotiations on its nuclear program that would lead to the complete lifting of anti-Iranian sanctions, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said on Tuesday.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran considers such negotiations in the nuclear sphere useful, the final result of which will be the lifting of all repressive sanctions," he said in a speech at the UN General Assembly.
He stressed that although 15 IAEA reports testified to Tehran's commitment to its obligations in the nuclear sphere, the United States, in turn, does not fulfill its own obligations and does not lift sanctions against Iran.
At the same time, the president noted, the United States also imposed new sanctions against Iran. However, the campaign of Washington's pressure on Tehran, according to Raisi, failed, which is realized even in the United States itself.
"And we do not trust the promises made by the US administration," he also said.
He recalled that Iran does not seek to create nuclear weapons, and such weapons have no place in the Iranian defense doctrine and deterrence policy. Raisi added that such an approach is based on a religious decree of the supreme leader of Iran.
In 2015, Iran and the six countries - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany - concluded a nuclear agreement - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), according to which the republic should allow IAEA inspectors to visit its nuclear facilities in exchange for a step-by-step lifting of sanctions. Former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 and resumed anti-Iranian sanctions, which prompted Tehran to gradually abandon compliance with some of the terms of the deal.
From April to June of this year, Iran and the rest of the JCPOA participants, with the indirect participation of the United States, held six rounds of negotiations in Vienna with the aim of restoring the JCPOA. Currently, the negotiations are on pause: Iranian officials have previously stated that Tehran will be ready to continue negotiations after the inauguration of the new Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi in early August and the formation of a new government.
