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Iranian Officials Demand Biden Lift Sanctions, Return to Nuclear Deal
On 1/18/21 at 12:04 PM EST
Top Iranian officials are demanding that President-elect Joe Biden lift sanctions and return to the Iran nuclear deal before any further negotiations can move forward.
Biden signaled during his presidential campaign that he aimed to return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which granted Iran sanctions relief and international investment in exchange for curbing its nuclear program. President Donald Trump withdrew from the international accord in 2018 and reimplemented punitive sanctions against the Persian Gulf nation and its leaders. What we say is that whatever has happened under Trump s administration must go back to the pre-Trump era. We are serious about it, Mahmoud Vaezi, chief of staff to Iran s President Hassan Rouhani, told Iran s Tasnim News Agency on Monday. Vaezi asserted that all the sanctions implemented under Trump s administration must be lifted for ties