Khamenei's Top Aide: 'Removal of Sanction Should Not Depend on IAEA Approval.'

Khamenei's Top Aide: 'Removal of Sanction Should Not Depend on IAEA Approval.' (IMRA).

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader's top adviser for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati underlined that the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) should start removing the western sanctions against Iran immediately after Tehran and the world power strike a final deal.

"The simultaneous restriction of Iran's nuclear capacities and the removal of sanctions is an important demand by Iran which should be respected," Velayati told reporters and after his meeting with German Deputy Foreign Minister Markus Ederer in Tehran on Wednesday.

He underlined that Iran will never accept to wait for the IAEA's approval, and said, "If Iran begins restricting nuclear activities, but the other side waits for the IAEA's confirmation of our measures to remove the sanction, such a move will by no means be acceptable to Iran."

On Wednesday, the Iranian parliament's Nuclear Committee released a factsheet to declare the revisions needed to be made in the Lausanne statement that was issued by Tehran and the world powers as a framework understanding at the end of their nuclear talks in Switzerland earlier this month.

The factsheet which was presented by Head of the Nuclear Committee Ebrahim Karkhaneyee stresses the necessity for respecting the redlines and guidelines specified by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, making Iran's decisions and undertakings reversible to enable the country to resume its nuclear operations in case of the other side's non-commitment to its undertakings, and immediate termination of all sanctions in a single step and on the first day of the implementation of the final agreement.

The factsheet also necessitates commitment of both sides to their undertakings based on the Geneva agreement, a fair and reasonable balance between the gives and takes, taking good care not to impair the country's security and military boundaries and national interests, providing 190,000 SWUs (Separative Work Units) of nuclear fuel enrichment capability needed by Iran to produce fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power plant immediately after the end of contract with Russia, safeguarding the nuclear achievements, actual operation of all nuclear facilities of Iran not in words, but in action, continued Research and Development (R and D) works and scientific and technological progress in Iran and immediate application of R and D findings in the country's industrial-scale uranium enrichment cycle.

The factsheet urges operation of 10,000 centrifuge machines at Natanz and Fordo, a maximum 5-year-long duration for the deal and for Iran's nuclear limitations, replacement of the current centrifuges with the latest generation of home-made centrifuge machines at the end of the five-year period.

Also last Thursday, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the underway talks between Tehran and the world powers were merely limited to the nuclear issue, and underlined that the sanctions against Iran should be annulled "on the same day (of the implementation) of any agreement" .

He specified conditions for a final nuclear deal with the world powers, and underlined that Iran doesn't allow any inspection of its defensive and military centers.

"They (the foreigners) shouldn't be allowed at all to penetrate into the country's security and defensive boundaries under the pretext of supervision, and the country's military officials are not permitted at all to allow the foreigners to cross these boundaries or stop the country's defensive development under the pretext of supervision and inspection," Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a large number of Iranian people in Tehran.

Elaborating on his position on the recent nuclear statement issued by Iran and the G5+1 in Lausanne, Switzerland, he said, "I am neither in favor nor against it since nothing has happened yet and no binding issue has occurred between the two sides."

Ayatollah Khamenei underscored that he would support a final deal which would guarantee the Iranian nation's honor and interests, and added, "I am not indifferent to the negotiations but I have not interfered in the details of the negotiations by now and will not interfere in the future either."

Ayatollah Khamenei stressed the necessity for continued progress in the country's nuclear Research and Development (R&D) and development of the nuclear industry, and said another important issue in the final deal is that "the sanctions should be removed completely on the same day (of the implementation) of any agreement".