Iran president repeats call for nuclear deal guarantees ahead of U.N. visit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tehran can be severe about reviving a deal on its nuclear program if there have been ensures the US wouldn’t once more withdraw from it, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi mentioned in an interview broadcast on Sunday.

Final month, Iran’s international minister mentioned Tehran wanted stronger ensures from Washington for the revival of the 2015 deal and urged the U.N. atomic watchdog to drop its “politically motivated probes” of Tehran’s nuclear work.

Chatting with the CBS present 60 Minutes in a interview performed final Tuesday, Raisi mentioned, “If it’s a superb deal and truthful deal, we’d be severe about reaching an settlement.”

In his remarks forward of a go to to the United Nations Normal Meeting in New York this week, Raisi added, “It must be lasting. There have to be ensures. If there have been a assure, then the People couldn’t withdraw from the deal.”

He mentioned the People had damaged their guarantees on the deal, below which Tehran had restrained its nuclear program in trade for reduction from U.S., European Union and U.N. financial sanctions.

“They did it unilaterally. They mentioned that, ‘I’m out of the deal.’ Now making guarantees is changing into meaningless,” he mentioned. 

“We can not belief the People due to the habits that we now have already seen from them. That’s the reason if there isn’t any assure, there isn’t any belief.”  

The U.S. community described the interview with journalist Lesley Stahl as Raisi’s first with a Western reporter.

“I used to be advised learn how to gown, to not sit earlier than he did, and to not interrupt him,” Stahl mentioned. Throughout months of talks with Washington in Vienna, Tehran demanded U.S. assurances that no future U.S. president would abandon the deal as former President Donald Trump did in 2018.

The deal appeared close to revival in March.

However oblique talks between Tehran and Washington then broke down over a number of points, together with Tehran’s insistence that the Worldwide Atomic Power Company shut its investigation into uranium traces discovered at three undeclared websites earlier than the pact is revived.

There was no signal that Tehran and Washington will handle to beat their deadlock however Iran is predicted to make use of the U.N. Normal Meeting to maintain the diplomatic ball rolling by repeating its willingness to achieve a sustainable deal.

Nonetheless, President Joe Biden can not present the ironclad assurances Iran seeks as a result of the deal is a political understanding reasonably than a legally binding treaty.

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Modifying by Clarence Fernandez)