Iran Press/Iran news: "If someone says in unison with the United States and Israel that the IRGC should not be removed from the list of sanctions, it is anti-national and alignment with the enemies," Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said during Friday's sermons.
Referring to the Vienna talks, Ayatollah Khatami said: "Serious guarantees must be taken from the West."
He continued: "Definitely, the IRGC should be removed from the list of sanctions."
He further stressed that the Iranian nuclear program is peaceful, adding that all the sanctions must be lifted.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday that no agreement will be struck through the Vienna talks on the revival of the 2015 Iran deal until there is total consensus on the main issues of contention.
Negotiations have been held in the Austrian capital since April last year to restore the 2015 Iran deal, which was ditched by former US President Donald Trump in May 2018.
The interim leader of Friday Prayers in the Iranian capital of Tehran also said that it is the duty of the rulers of Afghanistan to ensure the security of the people, adding that the perpetrators of the recent terrorist attacks in Mazar-i Sharif and other cities in Afghanistan must be identified and punished for their crimes.
He further pointed to the approaching international Quds Day and said that the rallies on that day in the Islamic world anger the enemies.
The Tehran Friday Prayers leader also pointed to the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden, saying that the European country cannot stop the spread of Islam.
"Freedom in Sweden means enjoying freedom to insult the prophets, freedom in Sweden means to provide a platform for racism, their freedom is a slogan," he underlined.
Elsewhere, Khatami referred to the anniversary of the defeat of the US military operation in the Tabas region in northeast Iran in the early days after the revolution due to a sandstorm and reminded us that since the beginning of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Washington has not stopped conspiring against the Iranian nation for a single day.
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