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US: Sanctions on Iran will be lifted Only in Stages

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The US warns that sanctions on Iran will be lifted only in phases as the nuclear deal is implemented. Earlier, Iran demanded the sanctions be removed as soon as the deal is signed.

The State Department said Thursday the sanctions would be removed only gradually.

"We're not going to respond to every public statement made by Iranian officials or negotiate in public. Sanctions will be suspended in a phased manner upon verification that Iran has met specific commitments under a finalized joint comprehensive plan of action," said State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke.

This comes as the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei demanded that all sanction on Iran be lifted as soon as final agreement on Tehran's nuclear program is reached.
"I neither support nor oppose the deal. Everything is in the details, it may be that the deceptive other side wants to restrict us in the details," Imam Khamenei said in a speech broadcast live on state television Thursday.

"All sanctions should be removed when the deal is signed. If the sanctions removal depends on other processes, then why did we start the negotiations?" he added.
This echoes remarks made by President Hassan Rouhani delivered the same day: "We will not sign any deal unless all sanctions are lifted on the same day ... We want a win-win deal for all parties involved in the nuclear talks."

Lifting of the sanctions in exchange for a scaling-down of nuclear enrichment activities and a degree of international control over the Iranian nuclear industry is at the core of the deal. Agreeing exact terms on how quickly the sanctions will be lifted and how the program will be curtailed was a tough task for the nuclear negotiators.

The West says insists Iran fully cooperates on an IAEA investigation into past nuclear activities, the so-called possible military dimensions (PMDs).
"PMD is out of the question. It cannot be discussed," an Iranian official said as quoted by Reuters. Khamenei also has said that "Iran's military sites cannot be inspected under the excuse of nuclear supervision."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team