As negotiations in Almaty, Kazakhstan, entered their first day, Al-Monitor’s Laura Rozen has reported that the P5+1 plans to offer Iran sanctions relief in a number of different areas in exchange for shutting the underground Fordow enrichment facility, ending 20% uranium enrichment, and shipping out its existing 20% stockpile. While previous leaks had only mentioned easing restrictions on using gold as a payment method for Iranian imports, the new report states that sanctions on Iran’s petrochemical industry, as well as some “small scale banking sanctions” are on the table. This invites the question: How would the United States go about lifting these sanctions?
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