TEHRAN, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The West should provide "concrete" guarantees in implementing its obligations to remove the anti-Iran sanctions under a possible nuclear deal, said Kazem Sedighi, Tehran's interim Friday Prayers leader.
Sedighi said that "with regards to the Vienna talks, the (supreme) leader stresses distrust in the other side (the West) and urges securing guarantees and verifications on the removal of sanctions," the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi should ask for "concrete" guarantees from the United States in the possible agreement during the Vienna talks and this is exactly what people want, Sedighi was quoted as saying.
He also stressed his country's right to pursue peaceful nuclear activities, citing nuclear energy is one of the necessities in today's world.
Since April 2021, eight rounds of talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have been held in the Austrian capital of Vienna by Iran and the remaining JCPOA parties, namely China, Britain, France, Russia and Germany.
The United States has been indirectly involved in the talks, which are reportedly nearing an agreement. ■
