Iran nuclear deal 'imminent' with crippling sanctions removed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The European Union's "final text" proposal for the accord, submitted last week, was approved by the US, which says it is ready to quickly seal the agreement if Iran accepts it.
53% : Within 120 days of signing the agreement, Iran will be permitted to export 50 million barrels of oil per day.
52% : The new deal will be carried out in four phases over two 60-day periods, sources with knowledge of the proposed agreement told Al Jazeera Arabic.
52% : Iran maintains its aims are peaceful and its actions fall within the country's sovereign rights to a civilian nuclear programme.
49% : A European proposal to revive the nuclear agreement between Western countries and Iran is imminent and includes the release of billions of dollars in frozen Iranian funds and oil exports in return for the scaling back of its nuclear programme.
46% : It also says Tehran will immediately begin to reverse the steps it took to advance its nuclear technology, which is now beyond the scope of what the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the 2015 deal's original signatories say is acceptable.
45% : One of the main sticking points to reviving a deal appears to be a safeguards inquiry into Iran's nuclear programme by the IAEA, which Tehran wants closed for good before the JCPOA is restored.
38% : Tehran, meanwhile, has said it will never shelve plans for revenge after the killing of the Revolutionary Guard's top general, Qassem Soleimani.
37% : US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has suggested the IRGC's "terror" designation falls outside the purview of the nuclear deal and, therefore, requires separate concessions from Iran.
37% : Right-wing US politicians and Israel, the arch-rival of Iran, have warned Washington against lifting sanctions on the IRGC.
35% : Soleimani, who headed the elite Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of the IRGC, was killed in an American drone strike in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, in January 2020.
34% : Iran responded to his assassination by firing missiles a few days later at Iraqi bases housing US troops, causing injuries.
33% : Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid spoke to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday, pressing Israel's position that efforts to revive a nuclear deal with Iran should end.

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