New Accusation by Jalili Regarding the Agreement: Opening 50 Access Points to Military Domains

Saeed Jalili, the former head of Iran's nuclear negotiation team, claims that the Vienna nuclear agreement has opened "more than 50 openings and inspection points for foreign and enemy access" to the country's "military and sensitive domains." According to the state news agency IRNA, Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, a member of parliament and spokesman for the special committee on the JCPOA, referred to Jalili's statements during the committee meeting on Sunday, September 22, stating that the former head of Iran's nuclear negotiation team believes that even after the implementation of the Vienna nuclear agreement, "many sanctions" against Iran will remain and "none of the U.S. sanctions will be lifted." Jalili noted that some sanctions, such as those on SWIFT, fuel supply to cargo ships and aircraft, and the asset freeze of 224 individuals and entities, including certain universities, banks, organizations, companies, economic entities, and industrial groups, "will not even be suspended for another eight years, let alone lifted." According to the Vienna nuclear agreement, the U.S. will halt the sanctions mentioned in the agreement, including financial sanctions and the sale of Iranian oil. Jalili's comments about inspections of Iran's "military and sensitive domains" come as a "roadmap" was signed on July 23, just hours before the official announcement of the comprehensive nuclear agreement between Iran and the 5+1 group, which reached a "separate agreement" regarding inspections of the Parchin military site. The Associated Press reported on August 19 that this agreement allowed Tehran to use its own experts for inspections of the Parchin facilities. However, Reuters reported on Friday, September 20, citing Western diplomats, that during sampling at the Parchin military center, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency would also be present alongside Iranian specialists. This is not the first criticism Jalili has made of the current Iranian foreign minister's team. On Tuesday, September 16, he stated that "one hundred of Iran's legitimate rights" were overlooked in drafting the Vienna nuclear agreement and its annexed documents. His accusations prompted reactions from Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Velayati, head of the Strategic Research Center of the Expediency Council, Hamid Baidi Nejad, a member of Iran's nuclear negotiation team, and several members of parliament. Salehi asked Jalili to provide documentation for his statements, and Baidi Nejad responded that Jalili himself had not even reached the negotiation stage with global powers. Jalili's invitation to the special JCPOA committee has also led to protests from some members of parliament, with several accusing the committee members of "political confrontation" with the government. Nonetheless, he still has access to this committee. In this context, Kazem Jalali, head of the parliament's research center, said on Saturday that the special JCPOA committee should not become "a tool for electoral propaganda." However, some members of parliament defended the JCPOA committee, with Ahmad Tavakoli, a representative from Tehran, deeming the claims of "political and factional" behavior by the committee as "superficial and baseless." Meanwhile, Naqavi Hosseini reported that during the Sunday JCPOA committee meeting, media reports about the committee's "specific inclinations" were discussed. According to the House of Representatives news agency, he called these accusations "an injustice" to the parliament and the JCPOA committee, an injustice that, according to him, "distorts the path to achieving accurate arbitration." Alireza Zakani, along with Mahmoud Nabavian, Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi, Mehrdad Bazrpash, Ismail Kowsari, Ebrahim Karkhaney, and Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, other members of the JCPOA committee, are among the serious critics of the Vienna nuclear agreement in parliament.