29 Mar 2024
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Iran will reverse nuclear steps only if US lifts sanctions first, Leader says

Iran will reverse nuclear steps only if US lifts sanctions first, Leader says
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran will retrace its nuclear countermeasures once the United States lifts its sanctionsin a manner that could be verifiable by Tehran.
Iran will return to its JCOPA obligations once the US fully liftsits sanctions in action and not in words or on paper, and once thesanction relief is verified by Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei said,referring by abbreviation to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the official name of the landmark nuclear agreement that Iran signed with the P5+1 group of states -- the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany -- in Vienna in 2015.
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in Tehran on Sunday during a meeting with commanders, pilots, and staff members of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF).

The meeting was held on the anniversary of a historic development that camedays before the 1979 victory of Irans Islamic Revolution that deposed the former US-backed Pahlavi regime. The event saw Homafaran, Pahlavi'sair force officers, breaking away from the monarchical regime and pledging allegiance to the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini.

Under his signature maximum pressure policy against Iran, former US President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the JCPOA and restored the economic sanctions that the deal had removed. The US also began threatening third countries with secondary sanctions if they violated the American bans.

Trumps abandoning of the multilateral agreement was illegal under international law as the JCPOA has been endorsed by the United Nations Security Council in the form of Resolution 2231.

Iran remained fully compliant with the deal for an entire year but as the remaining European parties failed to fulfill their end of the bargain, Tehran began in May 2019 to scale back its JCPOA commitments in several steps under Articles 26 and 36 of the accord covering Tehrans legal rights.

In his Sunday's remarks, the Leader said it was the definitive and irreversible policy of the Islamic Republic that the United States ought tofirst fully eliminate the sanctions before Iran could reverse its retaliatory measures.

Trumps successor, Joe Biden, has signaled a willingness to rejoin the JCPOA, which was inked when he was vice president. However, his foreign policy team has said Iran should take the first step by coming back into "full compliance" with the deal, a condition Tehran says is unacceptable.
The Americans and the Europeans have no right to set any conditions [of their own] as theyviolated their JCPOA commitments, Ayatollah Khamenei said, adding that Iran would pay no heed to the idle talk of some undeserving American and European officials in this regard.
They initiallyput some of the sanctions in abeyance for a brief period, but then reimposedand even intensified them, Ayatollah Khamenei said in reference to Washington and its allies initial limited compliance with the JCPOA. Therefore, they have no right to come up with any conditions, the Leader reiterated.
Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to Washingtons past failures to hurt Iran's Islamicestablishment as one of its numerous miscalculations concerning the country.

The Leader particularly recalled Trumps national security advisor John Boltons failed prediction that Washington would successfully enable a "regime change" in Iran by early 2019.

One of those very first-class idiots had said two years ago that they would be celebrating the New Year in Tehran in January 2019, Ayatollah Khamenei noted.
Now, that person has entered the dustbin of history and his boss (Trump) has been kicked out of the White House in a humiliating manner. By Gods grace, though, the Islamic Republicstill stands tall, the Leader noted.
Ayatollah Khamenei named the US support for the riots that broke out in Iran in 2009 as another instance of Washingtons miscalculations in its efforts to bring about the collapse of the Islamic Republic.

Washingtons excessive trust in the Pahlavi regimes military, the Leader said, was yet another calculation that was proven wrong when the air force personnel turned their backs on the US-backed regime.

Ayatollah Khamenei described the officers deserting the army and joining the masses of revolutionary people as a miracle-like development that hugely contributed to the Revolutions victory.

Ayatollah Khamenei also pointed to Trumps chaotic final days in the White House, which culminated in the invasion of the Capitol Hill by his extremist supporters.
The Leader said the incidents were not to be underplayed and judged only in light of the twilight of an American president. Rather, those developments in fact marked the twilight of Americas reputation, power, and social integrity, he noted.
 

The Leader advised the Iranian officials to always beware of the enemy and its error-riddled calculationsand constantly increase the constituents of national power.

He hailed the recent back-to-back military exercises featuring the Army and Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as attempts by the children of this country to boost national security, calling the maneuvers a cause for pride.

Ayatollah Khamenei, meanwhile, denounced certain regional states for relying on extra-regional sources for their own security, noting that those very same foreign powers would desert them when their assistance is required.

The Leader cited the likes of Irans monarch including Egypts Hosni Mubarak or Tunisias Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as examples of regional rulerswho mistakenly placed their trust in foreign powers.
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