Tehran, August 25: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Tuesday said the sanctions against Iran will be lifted one after another with the conclusion of the recent agreement between Tehran and the world powers. Rouhani made the remark in an address to a large crowd of people in the western Iranian city of Hamedan, Press TV reported.
The President said his administration has reached a point where it had the anti-Iran sanctions annulled at the very institution and by the very group that had imposed them in the first place. Rouhani said Tehran has succeeded in not only having the sanctions resolutions annulled — without even a moment of having implemented them — but also in establishing its right to uranium enrichment “not just as a slogan but through UN resolutions”.
He was referring to Resolution 2231 (2015), which was unanimously approved by the UN Security Council July 20 to endorse the agreement between Iran and the P5+1 countries. Representatives and nuclear experts from Iran and the P5+1 group — the US, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany — succeeded in finalising the text of the agreement, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in the Austrian capital, Vienna, July 14.
Meanwhile, the UN nuclear watchdog Tuesday called for contributions to help with inspection of Iran’s nuclear programme after last month’s agreement between Iran and the six world powers. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano called on member states to provide the agency with the money it needed, saying the extra budgetary contributions — 800,000 euros ($924,000) per month — will be exhausted by the end of September, reported Xinhua news agency.
Amano said the annual costs for verification and monitoring nuclear activities in Iran is 9.2 million euros ($10.63 million). The agency will also need money in the run-up to the implementation of the July 14 deal, which is expected early next year. IANS
