Tehran won’t insist on having its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps removed from the US sanctions list, CNN reports
Iran has dropped its demand that Washington remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the US terror blacklist, CNN reported on Friday, citing an unnamed senior US official. The issue has so far been a major stumbling block in talks to salvage the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.
According to the news network’s source, Iran did not include such a demand in its response to the “final” text of the agreement, proposed by the EU on August 8, to revive the nuclear deal. “The current version of the text, and what they are demanding, drops it,” the official told CNN. “So if we are closer to a deal, that’s why.“
The official also indicated that Iran walked back on its demands to delist several companies with ties to the IRGC, the country’s elite military unit.
The Biden administration has been adamant that it will…
