Iran's parliament presses Raisi to ask for more in nuclear talks
The letter shifted to yet another level an increasingly toughened Iranian position amid the impasse in the Vienna nuclear talks with the United States.
Members of the Iranian parliament submitted a letter to the country's President Ebrahim Raisi on April 5, calling on him to take a tougher stand in the currently paused indirect talks with the United States over the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal.
Drafted by hard-line lawmaker Mahmoud Nabavian, the letter received signatures from 190 members, more than two thirds of the conservative legislative body.
According to Iranian media outlets, the document specifically urged Raisi to seek "more robust guarantees" from Washington before any new accord, which Tehran and world powers have been intensely negotiating in multiple rounds over the past year.
The original 2015 accord was ratified by the former Iranian parliament in a brief 20-minute session, which drew criticism from hard-liners as a hasty process pushed by moderate factions supporting the deal. A potential revived accord would not legally require any parliamentary passage, the spokesman for the Iranian parliament's presiding board noted in February.
