By Sadegh Pashm-Foroush The day after the announcement of the results of Iran’s sham presidential election, Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei summoned the remaining members of the government of former regime president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19. In his remarks to them—indirectly addressing new regime president Massoud Pezeshkian—he warned him and reminded him of the “model” of the president in the regime. The supreme leader repeatedly mentioned Raisi and said, “He is truly a model; we must all learn from him.” He then reiterated the concept of “heartfelt belief and practical commitment” to the regime, which Pezeshkian, like all the election candidates, had committed to. Khamenei stated, “Dear Raisi demonstrated as a model that one can possess these mental, heartfelt, and practical qualities as the president of a country and follow them in practice.” Of course, before the sham election, Pezeshkian repeatedly stated that he would continue Raisi...
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EU presents ‘final’ text aiming to revive Iran nuclear deal
Four days of talks in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear program came to an end on Monday. The focus was on a European Union plan with the goal of returning all parties to a nuclear deal containing Iran’s nuclear program. With negotiations over the text of this plan now finalized, the officials involved have returned to their respective capitals with senior EU officials insisting there will be no more changes in this text. This is a message to Tehran to take it or leave it.
“What can be negotiated has been negotiated, and it’s now in a final text. However, behind every technical issue and every paragraph lies a political decision that needs to be taken in the capitals,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a tweet. “If these answers are positive, then we can sign this deal,” he added.
A senior EU official told reporters that there will be no more changes to the text, already under negotiation for 15 months, adding he expected a final decision from the parties within a “very, very few weeks.” “It is a package proposal… You cannot agree with page 20 and disagree with page 50. You have to say yes or no,” he concluded.
As things stand it is now up to Tehran and Washington to decide if they will accept the EU plan or not. The U.S. responded quickly to say it is ready to quickly reach an agreement to revive the deal on the basis of the EU proposals.
“They (the Iranians) repeatedly say they are prepared for a return to mutual implementation of the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). Let’s see if their actions match their words,” a U.S. State Department spokesperson said, according to Reuters. This places the ball in Tehran’s court to make it clear if they agree with the text or not.
Iranian regime officials, however, have been signaling their stances is different, saying they would convey their “additional views and considerations” to the European Union, which coordinates the talks, after consultations in Tehran.
The Nournews website, affiliated with the regime’s Supreme National Security Council that makes the decisions in the nuclear talks, said the EU, being the talks coordinator, lacks the authority to “present its proposals as the final text.”
“The aim is to force Iran to accept the text … under pressure … when Iran, as one of the negotiating parties, does not accept it as the final text, no other authority can talk about the finalization of the text,” Nournews wrote.
“Iran’s negotiating team is concerned about guarantees on lasting commitments being implemented by other parties of the deal and preventing a repeat of the US’ illegal measures,” said a senior Iranian regime Foreign Ministry official, according to IRNA, the regime’s official news agency, on Monday.
Tehran has put forward demands the U.S. and other Western powers believe are outside the scope of reviving the nuclear deal. This includes the regime insisting the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) drop its claims Tehran has failed to fully explain uranium traces at several undeclared sites. The West has been indicating this is a no-go considering its negative impact on the IAEA’s authority and credibility.
A senior regime official told Reuters on Monday that “aside from Tehran’s demand about the closure of the IAEA probe, several other issues still remained to be discussed”.
The mullahs’ regime has also sought to obtain guarantees that no future U.S. president would leave the deal if it were revived. However, U.S. President Joe Biden cannot provide such a lasting assurance considering how the deal is merely a political agreement and not a treaty that would be legally binding with legislative backing.
“The IAEA needs to distance itself diversionary and unconstructive political issues and fully resolve the outstanding safeguards matters,” Iranian regime Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a call, state media reported.
However, one western diplomat told reporters that the agreement text that has been negotiated does not mention this request of Tehran.
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has assured that she remains committed to standing up to Tehran’s hostility and their pursuit of nuclear weapons. Truss, a UK prime minister candidate at the Conservative Party leadership election in September, said in a letter that “I have been clear that progress on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is not moving fast enough, and I assure you that if the JCPOA collapses, all options are on the table.”
Rishi Sunak, the other Conservative candidate, also said in a letter that he would seek “a new, strengthened nuclear deal that extends the sunset clauses, lengthens the breakout period and curtails Iran’s ballistic missile program. The credible threat of snapback sanctions, which has so far been missing from the negotiations, is the only way we can force Iran to seriously engage with these proposals.”
Jalil Rahimi Jahan-Abadi, a member of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Affairs Commission, responded in an uncompromising tone, emphasizing Tehran “should not surrender” and “there are no plans for the Islamic republic to scrap its nuclear program.”
In a preliminary conclusion, it is obvious that the Iranian regime insists on the closure of the possible military dimension (PMD) case and a three-year probe by the IAEA into traces of unexplained enriched uranium found in three different sites across Iran.
This is especially important for Tehran considering the fact that following revelations made by the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in 2002, the IAEA launched the PMD dossier and placed 11 technical questions before the Iranian regime regarding the scope of its possible military nuclear program. Of course, the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, brought the PMD dossier to an end through a political agreement.
Years later once again Iran’s PMD dossier has been reopened. This time around, as the current EU plan and the Vienna negotiations have been finalized, the West is calling on Tehran to cooperate with the IAEA and that they will not provide political intervention in order to foreclose Tehran’s PMD dossier.
The mullahs’ regime is taking advantage of this elongated process of talks/no talks to further develop its nuclear weapons program and ballistic missiles as means to deliver a payload. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), reiterates the proven fact that Tehran will only respond to a policy of firmness and decisive measures.
The NCRI is the Iranian opposition coalition with the PMOI/MEK as its cornerstone member.
“Iran’s regime will not relinquish nuclear weapons. Its officials talk of bomb production. Negotiations give Tehran the time needed. If the world doesn’t want nuclear terrorists they must show firmness, reactivate United Nations Security Council resolutions and wide-ranging sanctions/inspections,” Mr. Mohaddessin said in a tweet. “20 years ago, the NCRI unveiled Iran’s Natanz and Arak sites. Instead of sanctions and punishment, the West chose talks and major concessions. Big mistake! If a firm policy was adopted Tehran would never be so close to the bomb. The world should not repeat the same mistakes,” he explained.
This article was first published by english.mojahedin
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