Irans Verification of US Sanctions Removal to Take 3-6 Months - Only Then Iran Will Comply With Its Nuclear Undertakings.

In a report released on Sunday, entitled ‘requirements and indicators of a real verification of the lifting of sanctions to achieve economic benefits for the Islamic Republic of Iran’, the research center said that normalization of banking relations, complete removal of exports barriers, complete sale of oil and oil products and full and rapid return of foreign currency from oil sale resources are necessary measures which should result from a removal of the US sanctions.

“It is obvious that the real verification of the removal of sanctions and positive evaluation results by Iran can never be done in just a few hours and a few days and it takes at least 3 to 6 months,” it added.

The research center further underscored the necessity for regular verifications of the process at 6-month intervals to ensure that Iranian economy continues to enjoy the merits of a removal of sanctions if the US sanctions are removed ever, adding that based on the ultimate policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the emphasis of Supreme Leader on the need to prioritize Iran’s verification of implementation of the US measures, verification of the Iranian economy's continuued merit from a removal of US sanctions is a necessity.

Iran’s Permanent Representative to Vienna-based International Organizations Kazzem Qaribabadi said the US should remove all anti-Iran sanctions in practice rather than on paper, stressing that only then Iran will comply with its nuclear undertakings.

“The sanctions must be removed practically, not on paper,” Qaribabadi said on Friday, adding that the issue has been stressed several times by the Iranian officials, specially Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.  

“That is why the Leader of the Revolution also raised the issue of verifying the removal of sanctions and it became the policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is reflected, stressed and followed up in various talks,” he noted.

Qaribabadi said that a verifiable removal should enable Iran to conduct banking transactions through international banks and monetary channels.

“Only then, one can be assured that the removal of sanctions has practical effects,” he noted,

He explained Iran’s stance on removal of sanctions, saying, “First, all the sanctions that were lifted under the JCPOA but were re-imposed by the US administration (under Trump) must be removed. Second, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions in addition to the sanctions that were removed under the JCPOA. These sanctions must be removed as well. Third, there are sanctions that were imposed under non-nuclear pretexts. These sanctions must also be removed completely.”

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