The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, stated this Monday that one of the "fundamental" elements of the provisional peace agreement between Washington and Tehran, announced the previous day, includes that both the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will "help" Iran to "destroy" its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium.
Vance thus anticipated the return of nuclear inspectors to the Persian country and emphasized in an interview with the NBC network that the memorandum of understanding clearly establishes that the IAEA and the United States will "help" the Islamic Republic to "destroy the stockpiles of highly enriched uranium."
The Vice President then detailed that this provisional pact includes "many benefits for the Iranians," including the lifting of sanctions and the "complete transformation" of their economy, although he insisted that all of this will depend on Tehran strictly fulfilling its part of the understanding.
"The Iranians get many benefits from this negotiation," the US leader remarked, emphasizing that the scheme has been designed to "reward" the Iranians for their "good behavior," as long as they "do what they promise," "destroy the stockpiles of enriched uranium in consultation with others," and commit in the long term to follow a verifiable path that prevents them from possessing nuclear weapons.
Vance also defended that the agreement "will transform the Middle East, but that it "is based on verification" and on checking whether in the "coming months" the Iranian authorities take "seriously" the "dismantling of that (nuclear) program in the long term."
"If the Iranians make a long-term commitment not to rebuild it, they will be welcomed into the global economy. If, on the contrary, they try to rebuild that nuclear program, they will never have the resources to do so," the Vice President warned, alluding to the consequences of a potential breach.
Along the same lines, on Monday night, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, highlighted that "Iran has committed to never having nuclear weapons," according to what he wrote on his social network, where he also denied that his Administration had accepted a disbursement of 300 million dollars (258.8 million euros) as part of a possible settlement.
After the dissemination of the aforementioned provisional agreement, the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Qaribabadi, pointed out that during the 60 days of negotiations foreseen between the parties, issues such as the "end" of "all sanctions and Security Council resolutions," the nuclear dossier, the definition of the "definitive mechanism" for the "reconstruction" of Iran, and the creation of a "compliance mechanism" that allows for the supervision of the obligations assumed by each actor will be addressed.