Iranian FM presents text of JCPOA to parliament

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif presented the text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to theIranian parliament (Majlis), the Iranian news agency IRNA reported Tuesday.

He went to the parliament Tuesday morning together with the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi to outline the achievements of the Iranian nuclear negotiating team in vienna and present the text of the JCPOA to the parliament.

Member of Majlis presiding board Mohammad Hossein Farhangi said in the opening of the session that the two officials are to present the parliament with the ultimate outcome of their nuclear negotiations in Vienna.

The parliament will then start the ordinary legal procedure to endorse the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the 5+1 on July 14.

Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi announced on Monday Zarif will attend Majlis open session on Tuesday to explain about the nuclear talks and text of agreement.

'All members of the UN, especially Iran, were of the opinion that the UN Security Council should endorse the agreement in the first instance,' Araqchi said.

He noted that the UN Security Council approved the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Araqchi said that the resolution unlike before is not binding, its scope is also limited, adding there is a lot of difference between the resolution and the agreement.

'If we violate this resolution, it will not be breaching of the agreement and like before we can avoid implementing the UN Security Council's resolution,' he added.

United Nations Security Council on Monday afternoon unanimously passed a resolution endorsing a comprehensive nuclear deal to terminate sanctions on Iran.

The UN Security Council members examined the JCPOA and passed Resolution 2231 which endorses it.

Under the terms of the JCPOA, the UNSC endorsement is the first step in implementing the deal and removal of arbitrary sanctions on Iran.

After 22 days of intensive negotiations in Vienna, Iran and the G5+1 countries – the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany – finally arrived at a final deal on July 14 which would put an end to a 12-year nuclear dispute.

Iran deal contains 100 pages including the text and its annexes which were agreed upon by all the negotiating parties.