Moscow Seeking to Lift All Anti-Iran Sanctions .

Moscow Seeking to Lift All Anti-Iran Sanctions.(Fars).Tehran - A high-ranking Russian diplomat said that Moscow is seeking to remove all the UN Security Council and the West's unilateral sanctions against Iran.
Russian Consul-General in Iran's Northern City of Rasht Maxim Baranov said that a relevant proposal is going to be put forward by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in an editorial in Moszkowski Novosti next Monday.
As regards the details of the article, Baranov said that the Russian premier will offer a removal of all sanctions against Iran in return for the International Atomic Energy Agency's tight control over all Iranian nuclear activities.
Putin, he said, will also caution the world, and specially the West, against the catastrophic outcomes of any possible military attack against Iran. "I am sure that the issue can be resolved through peaceful means and we (Russia) will propose that Tehran's right to continue peaceful nuclear program be accepted," Putin will say in his Monday article, according to Baranov.
But all these should take place in return for the IAEA's tight control over Iran's nuclear program, Baranov said. "All the existing sanctions against Iran, including unilateral sanctions, should be lifted and in return all Iran's nuclear activities should come under the assured and all-out control of the IAEA (over Iran's nuclear program)," Baranov added, elaborating on Putin's proposal.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
All Iranian nuclear activities, notably uranium enrichment at Natanz and Fordo, are under the full supervision and monitoring of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Russian officials have on various occasions reiterated their country's strong opposition to fresh sanctions against Iran, and urged a negotiated end to the differences between Iran and the West. Read the full story here.