Iran demanded world powers allow it to resume selling crude oil as negotiations continued Monday on salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal that the Trump administration …
Iran demanded world powers allow it to resume selling crude oil as negotiations continued Monday on salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal that the Trump administration withdrew from. Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian shifted the focus of negotiations on economic sanctions and asked for all embargoes on Iranian oil to be lifted. He wants to reach a point “where Iranian oil is being sold easily and without any barriers and its money arrives in Iran’s bank accounts,” Amirabdollahian said while in Tehran. As oil remains the lifeline of the economy, Amirabdollahian said the country wanted to “be able to enjoy full economic concessions under the nuclear deal.” “Guarantee and verification (of the removal of sanctions) are among topics that we have focused on,” he said. The eighth round of talks, happening in Vienna, was convened when the Iranian negotiator came back after leaving to consult with the regime’s leaders. Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, wants Western nations to remove sanctions first before moving forward on the nuclear deal. According to the Iran nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ( JCPOA), signed in 2015, Iran agreed to dismantle its nuclear program and allow international inspectors access to nuclear sites in the country.
