NOURNEWS - Negotiations between Iran and the P4 + 1 group in Vienna with the focus on lifting sanctions continue while a series of developments are taking place on the sidelines of these talks.
One of these cases was the presence of South Korean officials on the sidelines of these meetings and their consultation with Iranian officials and European parties.
In this context, last Thursday afternoon, South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Choi Jang Kun met with Ali Bagheri in Vienna, noting the importance of Seoul-Tehran relations, stating that the country is trying to repay its debt to Iran.
According to South Korean banks, about 10 trillion won ($ 9.2 billion) of the proceeds from the sale of Iranian oil shipments to Korea have been frozen in US banks due to US sanctions.
Another point is that almost two years after the corona outbreak in Iran, the World Bank has finally approved the payment of $ 90 million in financial assistance to Iran to combat the Covid-19 epidemic.
These two economic developments, along with some approaches of regional and supra-regional countries, including the Europeans, to economic relations with Iran are taking place while the West is trying to put them in the Vienna negotiating table and pretend that these are the outcome of the negotiations and if Iran, they say, will show more flexibility in their demands.
The behavior of the West over the past years has shown that they have always conditioned the Iranian market and economy on the outcome of the negotiations, confronting Iran with a kind of economic stagnation in order to turn the regime's surrender to the West into a popular demand by creating social pressures.
The West, which has so far failed to implement this policy in the new round of talks, is now trying to follow this path again in the form of games such as the presence of the South Korean representative on the sidelines of the Vienna talks and highlighting the World Bank action.
However, according to JCPOA, Iran rightly demands the lifting of all sanctions, and stereotyped and selective behavior cannot fulfill Iran's rights, so limiting the lifting of sanctions to small issues such as South Korea's debt or the World Bank's action is a deviation from the negotiation path.
On the other hand; Debt settlement by South Korea is not a favor but the right of the Iranian people and their duty. Under economic and international law, countries are obligated to pay for their economic dealings, and Seoul can be no exception.
Seoul's move to block Iranian assets for fear of the United States stems from South Korea's political weakness and lack of behavioral independence, and this cannot justify their inaction on Iran.
The World Bank's action two years after the corona outbreak is not a favor, but a World Bank task in the context of the global fight against the corona, which it has so far failed to implement.
to describe precisely; The policy of the West is to turn the rights of nations into privileges for the purpose of extortion, while the expiration date of these scandalous scenarios has expired and the West is obliged to fulfill its obligations to Iran.
It should also be noted that; the alleged flexibility of the West is not due to their goodwill, but to the policies of the Islamic Republic in recent months in neutralizing sanctions and separating the economy from the negotiations, which are moving in the direction of neutralizing and neutralizing Western sanctions and threats.
BY: Pooya Mirzaei
NOURNEWS