Iran not eager to return to nuclear deal, demands lifting of sanctions first

Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said his country is not particularly eager to see the US return to the 2015 nuclear deal with six big world powers. Khamenei instead demanded that the sanctions imposed on his country must be lifted immediately, in a televised address on Friday. This comes just days before Joe Biden’s inauguration as 46th US president. Biden has vowed to soften US’s Iran stand.

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