One of the key demands of Iranian negotiators and officials in the nuclear talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) is the removal of international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. As the Nov. 24 deadline approaches, various Iranian officials have reiterated this point, without specifying which sanctions or in what manner the complex rules should be removed.
Today, Nov. 18, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani said, “Certainly the sanctions have to be removed. … Otherwise, the negotiations will be futile and useless.” Ibrahim Aghamohammadi, a member of the parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said, “If the sanctions are not removed altogether, the negotiations have no meaning, because Iran started the negotiations for the injustice of these sanctions to be removed.”
