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2020/12/29
*By Professor Khawar Qureshi QC
The Importance of International Law – the JCPOA must be upheld
It often said that International Law is predominantly a tool for some States to pursue their own aims and justify their actions against others. However, whilst International Law and its institutions are far from perfect, they provide the only viable means through which States can interact with each other on a basis of mutual respect and co-operation.
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2020-12-27 19:44
Europe suffered greatest damage from Trump’s Iran deal exit: ex-envoy
TEHRAN – A former Iranian ambassador to France has said the European countries suffered the greatest damage from the United States’ withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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2020-12-27 19:36
EC secretary: U.S. must be forced to lift sanctions
TEHRAN – The secretary of the Expediency Council has said the United States must be forced to lift the sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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2020-12-26 23:58
E3 forced to back down
TEHRAN – The nuclear law passed by the Iranian Parliament has forced the West to change course on Iran in the nuclear issue, Abolfazl Amouei, the spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, says.
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2020-12-25 21:23
Russia calls for unconditional U.S. return to JCPOA
TEHRAN – Russia has once again called on the United States to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal without “any preconditions or extra demands,” Russian state news agency TASS reported.
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2020-12-23 19:52
Iran will not renegotiate JCPOA: spokesman
TEHRAN – Iran will not renegotiate a deal that had already been negotiated painstakingly, says Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for Iran’s mission to the United Nations.
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2020-12-23 19:50
UN calls for efforts to preserve JCPOA
TEHRAN – A senior United Nations official has called on signatories to a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers to make efforts to preserve the agreement.
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2020-12-23 18:39
Russia expects U.S. to fully rejoin Iran deal, says envoy
TEHRAN – Russia says it expects the United States to fully rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, formally referred to as the JCPOA, without preconditions.
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2020-12-23 18:39
Putin, Macron underline need to salvage JCPOA
TEHRAN – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have stressed the need to preserve the Iran nuclear deal, less than a month after the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who has promised to join the deal.
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2020-12-23 18:35
Iran terms as ‘unacceptable’ any proposal to revise, renegotiate or extend JCPOA
TEHRAN – Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, has rejected as “unacceptable” any proposal to revise, renegotiate or extend the 2015 nuclear pact as contrary to UN Security Council resolution 2231.
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2020-12-23 13:25
By Martin Love
Sustained and rare, honest goodwill by the U.S. is its only salvation now…
It would appear that the primary question regarding whether the JCPOA will be resurrected and sanctions dropped is on whose terms this might happen, if ever.
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2020-12-23 11:59
By Mohammad Mazhari
U.S. role in West Asia has never been constructive: Indian professor
TEHRAN – An Indian academic says that Washington has never played a “constructive” role in the West Asia region.
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2020-12-22 21:12
China makes new proposal to save JCPOA at high-level meeting
TEHRAN – China has made a new proposal to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers while underlining that the United States' withdrawal from the nuclear deal is the root cause of problems.
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2020-12-22 20:54
U.S. should return to JCPOA without preconditions: Russia
TEHRAN - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the United States should avoid setting preconditions for its return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
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2020-12-22 20:53
It’s Iran, not the U.S. that should set preconditions
TEHRAN – During the recent high-level meeting of the parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), it was underlined that the United States should not set any preconditions for its return to the 2015 nuclear deal. But some participants missed the point and forgot that the U.S. is not in a position to put forward preconditions for its return.
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2020-12-22 17:55
Tehran urges Europe to honor JCPOA duties instead of voicing concerns
TEHRAN — Government spokesman Ali Rabiei has said that Iran cannot be the only party that fulfills its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), urging the European parties to the deal to return to their commitments instead of expressing concerns about it.
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2020-12-21 20:13
European plot: How to kill an agreement?
TEHRAN – While other parties to the Iran nuclear deal underline the need to strike a balance between rights and obligations within the deal, the Europeans keep calling on Iran to reverse its nuclear measures that are meant to bring back balance to the nuclear deal.
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2020-12-20 21:11
INSTEX proved ineffective in the past two years: Iran’s UN envoy
TEHRAN – Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, has said that INSTEX, a mechanism aimed at facilitating legitimate trade with Iran, has proved ineffective over the past two years.
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2020-12-20 15:18
By Mohammad Mazhari
No guarantee a Republican administration won't quit nuclear deal again: expert
TEHRAN – A defense editor at the Economist says that there is no guarantee that a possible Republican administration in the U.S. will not breach the nuclear deal again.
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2020-12-19 22:11
By Mohammad Ali Saki
Russia says Trump’s policies have eroded trust in U.S.
TEHRAN - Director of the Russian Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS) says the policies adopted by the outgoing Trump administration have raised serious questions over the reliability of the U.S. as a partner.
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2020-12-19 22:04
Grossi remarks spark suspicions about European-led extortion plan against Iran
TEHRAN – The UN nuclear chief’s remarks on the need to hammer out a new nuclear agreement with Iran, which is in line with what the top German diplomat called “nuclear agreement plus,” sparked suspicions in Iran that the European signatories to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal – France, Germany and the UK (E3)- are not acting in good faith.
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2020-12-19 18:13
Government calls for unified efforts to nullify, lift sanctions
TEHRAN – Government spokesman Ali Rabiei has called for unified efforts to nullify or lift the U.S. sanctions, referring to recent remarks by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as guidance to fight off the illegal sanctions.
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2020-12-18 20:39
By M.A. Saki
Serious doubts about Grossi’s intentions
Rafael Grossi, the director general of the Atomic Energy Agency, has said reviving Iran’s nuclear deal under U.S. President-elect Joe Biden would require striking a new agreement setting out how Iran’s reduction of commitments should be reversed.
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2020-12-18 20:19
China rejects possibility of JCPOA renegotiation
TEHRAN — The director-general of the department of arms control in China’s Foreign Ministry, Fu Cong, has said China does not support any renegotiation of the Iran nuclear pact, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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2020-12-18 20:18
Iran hits back at IAEA chief’s call for new agreement, says JCPOA not renegotiable
TEHRAN – There will be no renegotiations on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and even if the deal is revived there would also be no need for a new document on the UN atomic watchdog’s role in implementing the deal, Iran said in response to UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi’s remarks on the need to strike a new agreement to revive the Iran deal.
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2020-12-16 21:52
Foreign ministers from JCPOA parties to hold talks on Dec. 21
JCPOA Joint Commission holds online meeting
TEHRAN - The Joint Commission of the JCPOA was convened in Vienna on Wednesday. It was attended online by deputy foreign ministers and political directors from Iran, Russia, China, Britain, Germany, France and the European Union.
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2020-12-16 14:27
JCPOA Joint Commission meeting is regular and usual: Iran
TEHRAN – Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, says the Joint Commission of the JCPOA (the official name for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal) is going to hold a normal and usual meeting.
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2020-12-16 10:55
11 Europeans’ JCPOA commitments that were reneged on
TEHRAN – As the European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal move to turn the heat on Iran by trying to widen the scope of the nuclear deal, a publication close to the office of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution put the spotlight on the Leader’s remarks on the European non-compliance with the nuclear deal.
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2020-12-15 21:42
JCPOA talks will go ahead as planned: EU diplomat
TEHRAN – The European Union-Iran talks on the 2015 nuclear deal will go ahead as planned despite the controversy over the execution of Rouhollah Zam, an EU foreign service spokesman said, according to Euobserver.
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2020-12-15 21:39
Trump’s pressure campaign against Iran failed: former WH official
TEHRAN – U.S. President Donald Trump has sought to reach a new deal with Iran through exerting pressure on it but he failed to get any deal with Iran, former assistant director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has said.
