Larijani: Iran MPs to Look with Constructive Approach into the Deal

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Iran's conservative-dominated parliament wants Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to brief it on a nuclear deal he negotiated with world powers and will examine the agreement in a "constructive spirit", official media reported Wednesday.

Under the accord announced Tuesday, international sanctions will be lifted. Iran confirms its program is for civilian purposes only.

Parliament speaker Ali Larijani said members of the assembly would scrutinize the deal's text and annexes from both legal and technical aspects.

"The MPs will look into the deal with a positive and constructive approach," he was quoted as saying. "We will invite the foreign minister soon to tell us more about the talks and the deal."

The head of parliament's security committee, Mohammad Reza Mohseni Sani, said MPs would want to examine the implications of the deal for access to a military site at Parchin, saying there appeared to have been a "compromise", Fars news agency reported.

The International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], the UN nuclear watchdog, has repeatedly asked for access to Parchin, where it wants to investigate concerns that Iran has conducted experiments to assess how specific materials react under high pressure as in a nuclear blast.

Consequently, the IAEA said on Tuesday it had agreed a roadmap with Iran aimed at resolving all outstanding questions about the country's nuclear program by the end of the year.

Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi declared on Tuesday that the country's red lines had been respected with regard to international access to Parchin.

Zarif and his negotiating team arrived back in Iran from Vienna on Wednesday, landing first in Mashhad to pray at the burial site of Imam Rida [AS] before going on to Tehran.

"The resistance of our nation showed the world sanctions against Iran are futile," he was quoted as saying.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by a website team