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State Department: Iran must respond to US concerns about lifting sanctions

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The United States announced today that if Iran wants a easing of sanctions beyond that of the 2015 agreement on Iran’s nuclear program – a seemingly reference to the removal of the Revolutionary Guards from Washington’s list of foreign terrorist organizations – – should address US concerns beyond the agreement.

“We are not negotiating in public, but if Iran wants to lift sanctions beyond the Joint Integrated Action Plan (CIP), it must respond to our concerns beyond the CIS,” a State Department spokesman said, referring to the 2015 agreement.

“On the contrary, if they do not want to use these talks to resolve other bilateral issues beyond the CSD, then we are convinced that we can very quickly reach an agreement on the CSD and start re-implementing the agreement,” he added. “Iran must make a decision.”

The U.S. spokesman responded to a senior Iranian official who said earlier today that Iran would not abandon its plans to avenge the assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani in 2020, despite Washington’s “regular offers” for Washington. and to provide other concessions in return.

The Quds Force is the foreign spy and paramilitary wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that controls allied militias abroad. The Trump administration put the Revolutionary Guards on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2019, marking the first time that Washington has officially designated another state’s military a “terrorist organization.”

“In the event of a return to the CIS, the United States will maintain and aggressively use our powerful tools to counter Iran’s destabilizing activities and support for terrorism, and especially to confront the Revolutionary Guards,” his spokesman said. State Department.

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