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The EU is considering pressure on Iran must be eased to save the nuclear deal, Politico reports.
The release cited excerpts from a draft document whose details were finalized Monday in Vienna. According to him, Europe proposes to reduce the sanctions pressure on members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It will reportedly not lift the sanctions entirely, but will soften them.
Politico writes that the proposals were drawn up through EU diplomacy chief Josep Borrell in agreement with the United States. . The gist of the proposals is that non-U.S. citizens will not be subject to sanctions when dealing with Iranian individuals on the U.S. sanctions list (including Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) if no other claims are made against them).< /p >
At the same time, according to the publication, during the discussion of the proposal, the idea was raised that its implementation would allow the IRGC to circumvent US sanctions by trading through front men and front companies. also announced that the implementation of the idea would allow Tehran to remove differences with the IAEA over undisclosed nuclear facilities.
In 2015, the UK, Germany, China, Russia, the US, France and Iran signed the JCPOA, which included the lifting of sanctions in exchange for curbing Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, the United States, under the leadership of Donald Trump, withdrew from the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions on Tehran, in response to which Iran announced a gradual reduction of its obligations under the agreement, abandoning restrictions on nuclear research equipment, centrifuges and uranium enrichment levels.