Iran’s foreign minister says he has never offered to waive the demand to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations. His remarks come after it was announced over the weekend that Iran had agreed to waive the demand to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations
Iran’s foreign minister says he has never offered to give up Iran’s demand from the US to remove the Revolutionary Guards from its terror list. From the list of terrorist organizations. “
“I could not have spoken more clearly about the central role of the respected Revolutionary Guards,” Hussein Amir-Abdulhian said in an Instagram post on Sunday after a commotion over his remarks in a television interview on Saturday. “The issue is not subject to compromise or waiver of red lines. I propose to re-examine my interview yesterday,” he wrote.
He claimed his remarks on Saturday were “not widely understood” by some media outlets and commentators. He claimed that some thought he was declaring that the Revolutionary Guards had given the green light to the government to make concessions in the nuclear talks in Vienna and not to demand the removal of the Revolutionary Guards from the American terrorist list.
Amir-Abdulhian claimed on Saturday that senior Revolutionary Guards officials always say that “the government should do whatever it sees fit to ensure the national interests of the state and not prioritize the issue of Revolutionary Guards.” And called it “self-sacrifice on the part of the Revolutionary Guards.” However, he added that despite the “approval from the Revolutionary Guards”, the government continues to see its removal from the list of American terrorist organizations as a “major issue”.
Former Foreign Minister and senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Kamal Harazi told the Doha forum today that a nuclear deal between Iran and the world powers was imminent, but insisted that an agreement was possible only if the US saw “political will” and removed the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations. He argued that the Revolutionary Guards “are a national army, so calling the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group is not acceptable,” he said.