All News about Iranian Parliament – Iran’s Parliament, separate from the government, is an elected chamber of lawmakers with its own factions and responsibilities. The Parliament section of IFP News offers up-to-date coverage of everything related to the Majlis, or Parliament.
The opponents of the government in parliament are reportedly trying to use obstruction as a new tool to disrupt parliamentary proceedings for implementing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
An MP has insulted Foreign Minister Zarif over his handshake with Obama. Parliament has shown reaction saying it will review the performance of the MP at the center of the insults.
MPs require the Iranian administration to actively pursue the policy of global nuclear disarmament and participate in all international, legal and diplomatic efforts in this regard.
The MPS also called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia to investigate the causes of the Mina tragedy.
A Tehran MP has said that parliament’s JCPOA Review Committee will release its report on the Iran nuclear deal by late October so that the deal can be discussed on the floor before its implementation.
Boroujerdi said that former chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and former nuclear chief Fereydoun Abbasi attended a session of the JCPOA Review Committee.
Some big powers tried to bring the Iranian nation to its knees, but the nation emerged victorious through steadfastness, Larijani told the Fourth World Conference of Parliament Speakers.
The petition says any voluntary measures and implementation of the deal before the approval of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and subsequent confirmation of the Guardian Council would be illegal.
Failure to accept the deal will do considerable damage to the image of the Iranian government on the international stage, Mohammad Javad Larijani said.
An analytical report released by Tabnak.ir says that the Iranian parliament has three different views on the way JCPOA should be reviewed and that these views have their roots in a partisan line of argument.
In light of the fact that JCPOA entails certain commitments for Iran, it should be viewed as an agreement and under the Constitution any agreement needs the blessing of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Saghaei said.
Hamid Rasaei, a principlist MP, has said that there are some problems with the Farsi version of the JCPOA text and that the document’s final translation should be re-discussed in talks with P5+1 after it goes through the legal channels.
Ali Motahari, a principlist MP, has said that the Iran nuclear deal should pass parliament, adding the chamber can only approve or disapprove the general outlines, not the details, of the historic deal.
The resistance of the negotiating team against the excessive demands of the arrogant powers, headed by the US, is a source of honor and appreciable, a statement by MPs read.
The Guardian Council says that it has not found a parliamentary bill on safeguarding Iran's nuclear rights and achievements as contrary to the Constitution.
An Iranian MP says that a parliamentary bill on safeguarding Iran’s nuclear achievements and rights can help the negotiating team and will not tie their hands.
Under a parliamentary motion on the nuclear case, the IAEA can only run conventional checks of [Iran’s] nuclear sites within the framework of the Safeguards Agreement.
