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The Iranian parliament approved on Tuesday the general framework of a draft resolution on the cancellation of sanctions and guarantee of national interests, and for its part, the European Union announced that the Joint Committee for the Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran (the agreement nuclear) will meet on December 16 in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
The draft resolution includes 9 points, including asking the Iranian government to back off some of its commitments to the nuclear deal and to cancel the additional protocol to the deal, in case it does not achieve Iran’s interests and European countries do not comply with obligations.
The speaker of the Iranian parliament, Muhammad Baqir Qulaibaf, stressed the right of the parliament to make such decisions and stressed that the latter will exercise its rights on the basis of the constitution. The Foreign Ministry is reported to have announced its opposition to the proposal.
Bold lines
According to state television, the project’s guidelines, called the Strategic Action Plan to lift sanctions and protect the interests of the Iranian nation, were accepted by 251 votes out of 290.
After the bill was passed, parliamentarians chanted slogans against the United States and Israel.
If the bill receives final approval from the Constitutional Council and becomes law, Iran’s Atomic Energy Commission will begin to enrich uranium by at least 20% and increase its low-enriched uranium stocks.
The nuclear agreement concluded with the major powers in 2015 did not allow Tehran to enrich uranium by more than 3.67%.
The bill would allow Iran to increase uranium enrichment (Al-Jazeera)Murder … threatened
These decisions come days after the assassination of prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, following the attack on a car in which he was traveling near Tehran.
The Revolutionary Guard promised “harsh revenge” against Fakhrizadeh’s assassins, accusing Israel of being behind the assassination.
For its part, the European Union announced that the joint committee of the Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran will meet on December 16 in Vienna.
A union statement said the meeting will be held under the chairmanship of Helga Schimimed, undersecretary general of the European External Action Service, and will be attended by representatives of China, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom, as well as Iran.
Participants will discuss ongoing work to preserve the Iran nuclear deal and how to ensure full and effective implementation of the deal by all parties, including preparation for exchanges at the ministerial level.
New details
Earlier, Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the National Security Council in Iran, announced new details of Fakhrizadeh’s assassination.
Shamkhani said the killing was carried out remotely using new and sophisticated devices, accusing Mossad and the Mujahideen Khalq Organization of being behind the operation.
A state funeral was held for Fakhrizadeh yesterday Monday, in the presence of a limited number of senior military and political leaders, without public participation, due to health measures related to the Corona pandemic.
During the ceremony, Defense Minister Amir Hatami said: “Our response to the assassination of Fakhrizadeh is imminent and inevitable, and will be severe punishment for those who committed this crime,” and stressed that this will not stop the course of the nuclear program of Iran, but will accelerate its pace, as he himself said.
Iranian Vice President Ishaq Jahangiri called the murder of the nuclear scientist state terrorism, adding – during his participation in the prime ministers meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – that the countries of the world must break their silence in the face of this terrorist crime, as he himself put it.
Contact … a threat
Meanwhile, the British website Middle East Eye revealed that Iran had threatened to launch a direct military strike against the United Arab Emirates, in response to Fakhrizadeh’s assassination.
The British website, citing an anonymous Emirati source, said that Tehran had contacted Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed directly and informed him that it would deliver a coup to his country in response to Fakhrizadeh’s assassination.
The Emirati source confirmed, according to the British site, that Tehran will hold the UAE responsible for the assassination of the nuclear scientist, should Iran be subjected to a possible US attack.
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