Iran lawmakers to form JCPOA review committee

Iran’s parliament (Majlis) will set up an ad hoc committee to review a recent nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 world powers in Vienna.

On Tuesday, 136 Iranian lawmakers voted in favor of a proposal to form a 15-member committee to review the text of the nuclear agreement, dubbed as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Iran’s Majlis speaker Ali Larijani said members of the committee would be picked later.

The decision to form the committee was made after Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attended the parliament’s session on Tuesday to hand over a copy of the JCPOA and brief the legislators on the landmark agreement.

Iran and the P5+1 countries – the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany – succeeded in finalizing the text of the JCPOA, in Vienna on July 14 after 18 days of intense negotiations and all-nighters that capped around 23 months of talks between Iran and the six world powers.

Under the JCPOA, limits will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic and financial bans, against the Islamic Republic.

The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously endorsed a draft resolution turning the JCPOA into international law. All 15 members of the body voted for the draft UN resolution in New York, setting the stage for the lifting of the Security Council sanctions against Iran.

In his Tuesday address to the Majlis open session, Zarif said Iran achieved its main objectives under the JCPOA, enumerating them as “maintaining Iran’s dignity and might, establishing the nuclear program [of the country], enrichment and retaining the heavy-water reactor.”

“For the opposite side,” Zarif said, “the key goal was preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons,” which the Islamic Republic was already not seeking.

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