AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid urged the United States not to remove Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) from its sanctions list.
Iran's international nuclear agreement or the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed between the country and P5+1 countries (Russia, China, UK, Germany, France, and the U.S.) in 2015, but the US scrapped it on May 18, 2018, re-imposing more sanctions on Iran.
The eighth round of sanctions talks began in Vienna on December 27 in Vienna, after a short break, between Iran and the P4+1 group, this time without the US as a party.
The statement came amid media reports that the United States was weighing delisting the IRGC as a step to resolve issues concerning the Vienna talks on the restoration of the Iran nuclear deal, which were nearing an agreement but halted again days ago.
"We believe that the US will not abandon its closest allies in exchange for empty promises," the statement continued.
Seeing Iran as its arch-foe, Israel has been a vocal opponent of a nuclear deal with Iran.
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19 March 2022 - 04:52
News ID: 1240612
Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid urged the United States not to remove Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) from its sanctions list.
