Five Members of the JCPOA Commission: The Final Report Does Not Align with the Interests of the Nation

Five members of the special commission reviewing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the Iranian Parliament issued a statement calling the JCPOA report "one-sided" and stated that the report read in the parliamentary session does not align with national interests and ignores the positive impacts of the agreement. The final report of the JCPOA commission regarding Tehran's nuclear agreement with six world powers was read in the open session on Sunday, October 12. In response to the final report, Aladdin Boroujerdi, Mansour Haghighatpour, Gholamreza Tajgardoon, Masoud Pezeshkian, and Abbasali Mansouri Arani issued a statement saying: "The final report read in the parliament was based on a discourse that has opposed the JCPOA from the beginning." According to the IRNA news agency, these five representatives stated in their statement: "Unfortunately, due to the prevailing bias in the commission, the sincere warnings of the members were ignored, and a one-sided report that was drafted outside the commission was put to a vote by the present members (three members left the session in protest), which ultimately was approved with six votes in favor and four against." These five members emphasized that the statement read does not align with the interests of the nation and that the very positive effects of the JCPOA, which could solve many of the country's current problems, have been overlooked. In the continuation of this statement, these five members referred to "165 achievements of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)." In this context, Gholamreza Tajgardoon stated after the report was read: "The report read in today’s open session of the parliament was prepared outside the special JCPOA commission, and seven members still object to it." This member of parliament added: "The reports from the committees of the special commission reviewing the JCPOA were set aside in last night's session of this commission, and a report that was prepared outside the special commission was approved and read in today’s open session of the parliament." According to IRNA, the members of the special JCPOA commission, consisting of 15 members, held two sessions on Saturday morning and afternoon to draft the final report on the JCPOA. The report read in the parliament stated: While Iran has accepted specific and clear commitments in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and its annexes, and the International Atomic Energy Agency must verify and confirm Iran's commitments, "the commitments of other parties are seriously damaged due to the complex provisions contained in the text of the JCPOA." The report emphasized: "The JCPOA puts Iran's nuclear program into a minimum ten-year suspension without a clear outlook for the future, from a long-term perspective." According to Abbasali Mansouri Arani, the JCPOA commission was composed of eight opponents and seven supporters of the nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers. According to the Young Journalists Club, this member of the JCPOA review commission stated that the Islamic Consultative Assembly has until October 26 to announce its final opinion regarding the nuclear agreement.