Iran wants 'guarantee' US will not leave nuclear deal again
One Republican senator said the United States would need to ratify the Iran nuclear agreement as a treaty to be able to provide such an assurance.
Iran wants a guarantee from the United States that it will not leave the Iran nuclear agreement again.
“The US must give a guarantee,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters on Monday, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
The United States and Iran are currently participating in indirect talks in Vienna on a possible US return to the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The 2015 agreement required Iran to scale back its nuclear program in exchange for international sanctions relief. In 2018, then-US President Donald Trump removed the US from the deal, alleging Iran sought to build a nuclear weapon.
Current President Joe Biden is now open to returning to the JCPOA but wants Iran to return to compliance. Iran is currently enriching uranium, which is required to develop nuclear energy, well above the deal’s stipulations.
