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A political commentator says there is a “strong possibility” that the United States will remove sanctions imposed against Iran over its nuclear energy program, Press TV reports.
“I think there is a strong possibility that that will happen. Not all at once, but progressively if the talks do make the progresses expected,” Christopher Walker said.

He added that the strong rightwing lobby in the US, supported by the Israeli Zionist lobby, says there must be concrete concessions, adding that from the American point of view, it remains slightly up in the air.
“…If there is something to be seen I think there will be a move on sanctions, I think everybody realizes that you can’t go on imposing crippling sanctions on a nation like that,” the political expert stated.
He pointed to positive change of tone in Iran-US talks after a meeting between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his counterparts from the six major world powers in New York and noted that Israel is still the “only major obstacle.”
“But Israel’s attempts to try and prevent the Americans and the British and others talking to the Iranians without some substantive moves from Tehran in the first place, seem to have failed,” Walker pointed out.
Following a Thursday meeting between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Russia, China, Britain, France and the US - plus Germany in New York over Tehran’s nuclear energy program, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington could begin removing bans on Tehran within months if a “transparent process is in place” over the nuclear issue.

The United States, Israel and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program, with the US and the European Union using the unsubstantiated claim as an excuse to impose illegal sanctions against Tehran.

The bans come on top of four rounds of US-instigated UN Security Council sanctions against Iran under the same pretext.

Iran has categorically rejected the allegation, stressing that as a committed member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it is entitled to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

By Press TV

 

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