JAKARTA – Iran announced that the United States (US) has agreed to remove all sanctions on oil and its shipments, while Washington said nothing was agreed until all talks related to the 2015 Nuclear Agreement were agreed.
The statement by President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, reiterates the statement by the Rouhani side that Washington is ready to make important concessions to the nuclear talks in Vienna starting next April.
The indirect talks were postponed for consultations in the capital on Sunday, two days after Iran held a presidential election won by hardliner Ebrahim Raisi.
“An agreement has been reached to remove all insurance, oil and transportation sanctions imposed by Trump,” Vaezi was quoted as saying by Reuters from Iran’s state media on Thursday, June 24.
While acknowledging that negotiators sometimes drafted texts, the US State Department said there would be no agreement until all issues were resolved.
“During these complex negotiations, the negotiators tried to come up with a text that captured the key issues, but again, nothing was agreed until everything was agreed,” a State Department spokesman said on condition of anonymity.
Vaezi also said that Washington had agreed to remove several high-ranking Iranian figures from the blacklist.
“About 1,040 Trump-era sanctions will be lifted under the agreement. It was also agreed to lift some sanctions against individuals and members of the supreme leader’s inner circle,” he said. Meanwhile, the US State Department did not comment directly on the matter.
Pressing for a deal from Western and Iranian negotiators, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said significant obstacles remained.
“We are making progress, but there are still some problems to solve,” Maas told a news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
It should be noted that Iran reached an agreement with major powers in 2015 to curb its uranium enrichment program, a possible path to nuclear weapons, in exchange for the lifting of sanctions from the United States, the European Union and the UN.
In 2018, US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw from the deal, followed by tough sanctions against Tehran a year later. Iran responded to this by re-enriching uranium. Before finally, the US government under Joe Biden wanted to talk about the 2015 Nuclear Deal again.
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