the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should not at all be entitled
in a final nuclear deal to the right to visit Iran's sensitive centers and
areas ...without corroborative evidence, proof and documents"
Sun May 03, 2015 7:24
Updated: Iranian Top Commander Declares Specific Redlines for Nuclear Deal
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General
Hassan Firouzabadi in a message to the country's team of negotiators on
Sunday mentioned specific redlines that should receive due attention in a
final nuclear deal with the six world powers.

In his message the General appreciated Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad
Javad Zarif and his negotiating team, describing Zarif as a well-experienced
commander on the scene of diplomacy and foreign policy, but warned him to
take good care not to be trapped in the political and nuclear talks with the
US.

He reminded the Supreme Leader's recent order to the Iranian military and
security officials for blocking any possible pathway that enemies could take
to infiltrate "Iran's defense and security affairs under the pretext of
nuclear supervision and inspection".

"Iranian military officials are not allowed to let the foreigners go through
the country's security-defense shield and fence," the General said reminding
the recent remarks of Iranian Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. "Iran's
military officials are not at all allowed to stop the country's defense
development and progress on the pretext of supervision and inspection and
the country's defense development and capabilities should not be harmed in
the talks."

"Our support for our brothers in the resistance (front) in different places
should not be undermined in the talks at all," he added.

Firouzabadi further reminded the United States' bad record in complying with
its undertakings and commitments as well as its security, military and
intelligence plots against Iran in the past century, and said no one can
trust such a state, and Iran's national security issues should remain safe
and immune from such an opponent, reiterating that a final deal should be a
comprehensive one envisaging the right for Iran to rapidly reverse its
measures in case the opposite side refrains from holding up its end of the
bargain.

"Iran's national security necessitates guaranteed irreversibility of the
sanctions removal and this is no issue for bargaining, trade or compromise,"
the Iranian chief of staff reiterated.

"Implementation of the Islamic Republic of Iran's undertakings should
totally depend on the approval of the country's legal and official
authorities and the start time for the implementation of undertakings should
first be approved by the relevant bodies," he continued.

The General said the final deal should be drafted in a way that if the
opposite side violates the terms of the agreement, Iran will not be required
to continue fulfilling its undertakings.

He also warned against the alleged rift between the US administration and
the Congress and its dire impacts on any final nuclear deal with Iran,
saying it would be an unforgivable mistake to open Iran's security rights to
"an administration that cannot and/or is not allowed to comply with its
undertakings or actions and attitudes beyond its will affect the
agreements".

The Iranian chief of staff reiterated that all the UN Security Council
sanctions resolutions against Iran should be transparently and decisively
annulled in one single resolution that would be binding for all the UN
Security Council members without any condition, reiterating that such a
resolution should also include the necessary assurances and guarantees that
it would not be violated or dropped under any kind of condition.

He further warned that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should
not at all be entitled in a final nuclear deal to the right to visit Iran's
sensitive centers and areas for any purpose other than nuclear enrichment,
or without corroborative evidence, proof and documents and only based on
suspicion and void excuses and political incentives and provocation, adding
that the IAEA should not be granted any exceptional authority and power to
supervise and inspect Iran's nuclear activities and centers (beyond the
rules and regulations stated in its statute and in the NPT).

He said a final deal should not at all limit Iran in transferring its
nuclear know-how and technology to other countries or in selecting and
choosing customers for its nuclear products such as heavy water, uranium
products, reactor construction and operation, mine exploration know-how and
services and other related technologies or in setting up consortiums, adding
that Iran should only be required to conduct all such activities on the
basis of the NPT rules and regulations, and a final deal "should not
necessitate it to receive the consent of the Group 5+1 (the US, Britain,
France, China and Russia plus Germany) in advance".

The chief of staff also stressed that the six world powers should also
undertake in a final deal to accompany Iran in its nuclear disarmament
efforts in the region and pave the ground for international inspection of
the centers of the nuclear armed states and dismantlement of such nuclear
weapons based on safeguard agreements.

Meantime, the General stressed that "dismantlement of Iran's nuclear
infrastructures (i.e. centrifuges) should be reciprocated with a guaranteed
removal of the sanctions structure by the G5+1", adding that "in case the
West insists on suspending and not terminating the sanctions, then the
Islamic Republic of Iran should only undertake to fulfill all its agreements
over restricting its nuclear operations - including (the number of) its
working centrifuges, enrichment grade, research and development of
centrifuge machines and reactors, including the Arak (Heavy Water) reactor,
and change in the application of Fordow enrichment center - merely in the
form of suspension".

Firouzabadi's remarks came as Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas
Araqchi said Iran and the G5+1 are resolved to finish the drafting of a
comprehensive nuclear deal in the next few days.

Araqchi, who is Iran's deputy lead negotiator, said that drafting of the
final accord started in New York on Thursday along with EU Foreign Policy
Deputy Chief Helga Schmidt, who represented the G5+1in the sessions.

"We hope to reach a draft accord in next few days; though being a difficult
task, it will serve absolutely as the first draft, being full of
differential points, about which decisions should be made later on," Araqchi
pointed out.

He said the draft has a series of appendixes on which experts have also
started work and details of the documents will be discussed as well.

"Our goal is to attain an early draft and we will spend as many days
necessary for the job in New York," Araqchi further added.

Also, Hamid Baeedinejad, a ranking member of the Iranian team of nuclear
negotiators and a foreign ministry director general, said on Sunday that
Tehran and the six world powers (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain
plus Germany) will continue drafting a final nuclear agreement in the coming
days.

"The meetings for drafting the text of the nuclear understanding are being
held day and night and will continue in the current (Iranian) week (which
ends on Friday)," Baeedinejad said on his Instagram page on Sunday.

He said that the negotiations on drafting a final deal are held at the level
of political directors and experts of Iran and the Group 5+1.

Baeedinejad explained about the method used for reaching a single text on
every issues during the talks, and said that the two sides first present
their written proposals and in some cases use a video projector to elaborate
on them and then both sides' texts are modified after long discussions until
a single text that is agreed by all sides comes out.

"Those issued that are not agreed upon after discussions will be left in
parentheses for further talks," he added.