MOSCOW, Mar 20Lifting the oil embargo on Iran in the event of signing a new nuclear deal could have unpleasant consequences for the United States — the Islamic Republic will be able to start buying Russian weapons with the currency received, Vladimir Vinokurov, vice president of the League of Military Diplomats, professor at the diplomatic academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti. «Iran is a powerful the player, in the event that the oil embargo is lifted and he receives currency from the sale of hydrocarbons, he will certainly want to purchase weapons, including from Russia, and the United States will not be able to influence this decision in any way.Yes, they managed to intimidate many of our military-technical cooperation partners with sanctions, but there are the opposite examples are India, China, Turkey, on which the United States exerted serious pressure, but they did not succeed. Tehran will not even think about it and will buy weapons from us if there are funds,» he said. At the same time, due to the fundamental differences between the parties, Vinokurov expressed doubt that a new nuclear deal could be concluded in the foreseeable future. “The question is whether there will be a new nuclear deal at all. While the Iranians are resisting, I don’t know how realistic this is,” he said. Negotiations are now underway in Vienna to renew the JCPOA and lift Washington’s sanctions against Tehran, December 27 2021 started the eighth round. Back in the course of the seventh round, in December, the parties reached an agreement on two draft agreements, in which the European side also included Iran's positions. On December 31, the negotiations were suspended due to the New Year holidays; on January 3, the parties continued the dialogue in Vienna. According to Iranian representative Bagheri Kyani, the talks are going well, but US State Department spokesman Ned Price assessed the progress in Vienna as «modest», urging Tehran to take the issue seriously. information began to appear, according to which the administration of US President Joe Biden is considering removing the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the list of terrorist organizations in exchange for a commitment from Tehran to move to de-escalation in the region.
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