US refusal to terminate Iran sanctions will definitely bring talks to halt: Source tells PressTV

Tehran (IP) - An informed source tells Press TV that the United States’ continued refusal to terminate all its sanctions on Iran will definitely bring the Vienna negotiations on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal to a halt.

Iran PressIran news: Speaking to the TV on the condition of anonymity, the source said Iran is still emphasizing the full implementation of the deal’s Article 29 and the termination of all the sanctions related to the nuclear deal and those re-imposed or relabeled during the term of ex-US President Donald Trump.

“America’s insistence on not terminating these sanctions will lead to a definitive halt in the negotiations underway in Vienna, Austria, on revitalizing the nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)," the source said.

According to the source, as the Iranian negotiating team has repeatedly announced during the Vienna talks, all the sanctions that were imposed on the Islamic Republic under any title after the JCPOA took effect — whether during the term of Trump or that of his predecessor Barack Obama —  should be removed and all the JCPOA articles should be precisely implemented.

"The so-called Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), and visa and U-turn regulations are all in violation of Article 29 of the deal," the source said.

The source said the US must remove all the obstacles to normalize Iran’s trade ties with the world under Article 29 of the JCPOA.

Based on the information obtained by Press TV, the United States has not so far accepted to make the reforms needed to reduce the risks posed to economic and banking cooperation with Iran.

Iran believes that the US refusal to remove the sanctions re-imposed under new labels on Iranian individuals and institutions on the US’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List is tantamount to circumventing the removal of the sanctions by the US, which Tehran will reject, the source said.

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