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1st LD: Sanctions against Iran should be removed "on same day" as deal signed: Iranian supreme leader

Xinhua, April 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stressed on Thursday that the world powers should remove all the sanctions against the country on the same day as the potential nuclear deal is signed.

To postpone the removal of sanctions to six months or one year is never acceptable, Khamenei said, adding that the talks with the powers over the country's nuclear issue was primarily aimed at the lift of all sanctions at once upon the seal of the agreement.

The U.S.-released fact sheet about the results of the recent talks in the Swiss city of Lausanne is an "unreal and distorted" text and it will not be the criteria of action in the run for a possible nuclear agreement between Iran and the powers, Khamenei said. Endit