– If there is enough political will and enough courage on the part of the United States, the agreement is not far off, says Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani to news. Bagheri Kani is also Iran’s special envoy for the nuclear deal negotiations. This week he is in Norway. The nuclear agreement with Iran states that Iran will reduce the enrichment of uranium in its nuclear program in exchange for the United States lifting the economic sanctions it has imposed on Iran. In 2018, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear deal. The US President, Donald Trump, reintroduced all the sanctions against Iran and a number of additional sanctions. After Joe Biden took over as president, the parties returned to the negotiating table to reach a new agreement. For over a year they have been trying to negotiate, but no agreement has been reached yet. – The nuclear agreements have not ended, the talks were negotiated indirectly between Iran and the United States in Vienna, and are now still being done indirectly, Bagheri Kani says. Qatar mediates between the United States and Iran. Iran will not meet the United States for direct talks. – We do not have a need to meet the Americans, says Bagheri Kani. The nuclear agreement with Iran The nuclear agreement was signed between Iran, the United States, Russia, China, Germany, the United Kingdom and France (P5 + 1) in 2015. The agreement was for Iran to reduce uranium enrichment in exchange for lifting economic sanctions against Iran. In 2018, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the agreement under then-President Donald Trump. Trump reintroduced a strict sanctions regime against Iran. After Joe Biden was elected president of the United States last year, P5 + 1 and Iran have met for new rounds of negotiations. Debtor on the USA – The USA has illegally left the agreement and has not fulfilled its promises, says Ali Bagheri Kani. Iran demands that the United States remove all sanctions before returning to the agreement. The United States terrorized the Revolutionary Guards, part of Iran’s defense. Iran wants this stamp of terror removed before concluding a new agreement with the United States. – It is the Americans who must show that they are willing to fulfill the provisions of the agreement, says Ali Bagheri Kani. Among other things, Iran has demanded that the United States lift sanctions against Iran before Iran returns to the agreement. The United States, on the other hand, believes that Iran must take the first step. Today, Bagheri Kani has met with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Present during the conversation was Henrik Thune, State Secretary to Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt. He believes that there will be a major crisis for the Middle East if a new agreement is not reached. – The danger is that you go into a game where there is an escalation between great powers in the Middle East. Want sanctions removed The sanctions plains that came with the nuclear deal led to a short-term but large economic growth. The sanctions had for many years prevented Iran from trading with large parts of the world. But after 2015, several European countries began to trade with and establish themselves in Iran. When the US reintroduced sanctions in 2018, the Iranian economy went downhill. European companies withdrew, and the economy experienced hyperinflation. But the sanctions have also affected Iran in other ways. In 2019, Human Rights Watch sounded the alarm that sanctions were preventing Iran from providing vital medicines. Iran produces most of its own medicines, but medicines for rare diseases depend on imports from abroad – EB patients in Iran do not get the special bandages needed to alleviate the disease because a European country refuses to sell them, says Bagheri Kani. – Several of the children suffering from this disease have unfortunately lost their lives. The sanctions against Iran should initially have humanitarian exceptions, but Human Rights Watch reported that the sanctions still “inflicted unnecessary suffering on Iranian citizens in connection with a number of diseases and medical conditions”. – Sanctions are the cause of drug shortages, says Bagheri Kani.
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