The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf, said that the statements of the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, regarding the nuclear deal are disappointing, calling on the new US administration to lift the sanctions.

In a statement in response to Blinken, who called on Iran to return to its nuclear obligations, he added that US President Joe Biden's administration should announce how to effectively lift sanctions and implement its obligations, instead of setting preconditions for fulfilling its obligations.

"If America believes in the nuclear agreement, it should show its commitment to it in practice rather than setting conditions," he said.

And US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called on Iran to return to abide by its nuclear agreement with world powers before Washington did.

Blinken said that if Iran returned to abide by the agreement, Washington would seek to build a "longer and stronger agreement" that would address other "very difficult" issues.

In 2018, the administration of former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear deal that was designed to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear arsenal in exchange for providing it with economic benefits.

Iran responded by reducing its obligations under the deal.

Iran affirms that it is ready to conduct negotiations with the United States, on the condition that Biden return to the 2015 nuclear deal and lift the sanctions imposed by Trump.

Handling and contrast

The American newspaper Politico said that there is a discrepancy in President Biden's administration, between those who see addressing the Iranian nuclear file an early priority, and those who refuse to set a time frame for returning to the agreement.

A US State Department official confirmed - in a statement published on the newspaper's website - that returning to the nuclear deal will take longer than many advocates of this agreement would like.

He pointed out that Iran is still far from complying with the requirements of the nuclear deal, and there are many steps that will need to be evaluated.

In statements carried by the site, another US official explained that US administration employees involved in the sanctions policy on Iran are thinking about the steps that should be taken to return to the agreement, and that they are planning to present their ideas to the political appointees by the Biden administration, including the new US special envoy to Iran Rob Mali. .

And the American website quoted an aide to a Republican lawmaker in Congress that lawmakers who have doubts about the agreement will likely oppose many of Biden's attempts to ease the sanctions, and they will also watch how the administration proceeds to implement the sanctions it decided to keep.

The US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that Iran is closer to producing a nuclear bomb, stressing that the Biden administration is seeking to use diplomacy to contain Iran's nuclear program.

The source pointed out that one of the areas of concern lies in how the Biden administration determines the goods that fall under the humanitarian exemptions from sanctions.

Limitations and conditions

It is noteworthy that Iran began to exceed the permissible limits in enriching uranium under the nuclear agreement after Washington withdrew from it in 2018 during the era of former US President Donald Trump, and re-imposed economic sanctions on Tehran.

But the new administration of US President Joe Biden made it clear that it would rejoin the agreement, provided that Tehran would once again fully comply with its terms.

In the meantime, the spokesman for the National Security Committee in the Iranian Parliament, Abu al-Fadl Ammoyi, told Al-Jazeera that there is no new agreement with the United States in the absence of a new US policy.

He stressed that the Biden administration is weak, and is still in the atmosphere of the Trump administration, and that it is disappointing, as he put it.