AFP, Paris :Iran is ready to resume nuclear enrichment “without any limitations” unless sanctions are totally and immediately removed at the end of negotiations, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Friday.Speaking to TV channel Euronews in Lisbon, Zarif said: “We can have the path of confrontation or we can have the path of co-operation, we cannot have a little bit of each.””If we take the path of confrontation, the US and the UN will continue with their sanctions, and Iran will continue with its enrichment programme. Without any limitations,” Zarif said.”Unfortunately the United States started… using the phrase ‘phased sanctions’,” Zarif added.”If you go through the joint statement you will not even see the word ‘suspension’ and you will not see the word ‘phase’. It’s clear that all sanctions, all economic and financial sanctions will be terminated.”Global powers reached a framework agreement for a nuclear deal with Iran on April 2.They must now resolve a series of technical issues by a June 30 deadline for a final deal, including the steps for lifting sanctions on Iran, and remaining questions over the possible military dimensions of its nuclear programme.Zarif told Euronews that there were discrepancies between the framework agreement and the “fact-sheet” released by the United States to explain what had been decided.Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama said on Friday a bill allowing Congress to review a deal concerning Iran’s nuclear program was a “reasonable compromise” he planned to sign, and he expressed confidence it would not derail talks with Tehran.Obama told a White House news conference that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator Bob Corker and the panel’s leading Democrat, Ben Cardin, had agreed they would protect the bill from “poison pills” amendments that would be tilted toward trying to kill an agreement with Iran.Since the White House said on Tuesday that Obama would sign the bill, it has sought to reassure anxious negotiating partners. Talks are aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions.”The final product that emerged out of the Corker-Cardin negotiations, we believe, will not derail the negotiations,” Obama said. “Assuming that what lands on my desk is what Senators Corker and Cardin agreed to, I will sign it.”
