A senior Iranian legislator strongly criticized the Lausanne statement issued jointly by Iran and the six world powers, warning that its contents do not serve the Iranian nation’s interests much.

“The Iranian team of nuclear negotiators has not achieved what it should have in the nuclear talks and the result of their work is not acceptable,” member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Esmail Kosari told Fars News Agency (FNA) on Friday.

“What has been mentioned in the joint statement of Iran and its negotiating parties includes the same things that the Western sides had been raising for one-and-a-half years since the Geneva agreement was signed,” the influential MP lamented.

Yet, he warned that the final results of the talks which will be in the form of a “final deal should receive the approval of the parliament”, implying that the foreign minister will have a tough job ahead before he could put the final deal into effect if such a deal is ever made with the world powers.

The prominent lawmaker said the Iranian legislature will scrutinize the Lausanne talks and statement as soon as it comes back from the Nowruz holidays in the next two days.

Another member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Abbasali Mansouri Arani, also underlined that the country’s parliament will oversee the conclusion and endorsement of the final nuclear deal between Tehran and the six world powers.

“The parliament will supervise over the comprehensive nuclear agreement like any other agreement,” Mansouri Arani told FNA on Friday.

He underlined that any agreement with foreign countries should be within the framework of the Islamic Republic ruling system and the country’s redlines.

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The Chief of Staff of President’s Office has said that recognition of Iran’s enrichment right and economic development opportunities [the result of the talks will provide the country with] are what Iran achieved in the Lausanne nuclear negations.

Mohammad Nahavandian said in his address to the worshipers in Tehran Friday prayers that the Supreme Leader’s nuclear decree played a pivotal role in resolving the lingering dispute.

“There was a time when the leaders of countries spoke about the existence of all options on the table, but today everyone speaks respectfully about the Leader’s decree which bans production of nuclear weapons,” he said.

He added that the same decree is the most important document on which they [Western nations] rely to make sure the Iranian nation abides by ethical values.

Nahavandian went on to say that the most important result of the last round of eight-day marathon nuclear talks in Lausanne for Iran was preserving the A-to-Z of the country’s nuclear cycle, adding that Iran is expected to seize the golden opportunities after the unjust economic sanctions against Iran are lifted.

He further said that the ill-wishers can no longer utter the antagonist remarks they used to say over the past 13 years.

From now on, no one in the world will have the right to tell the talented Iranian nuclear scientists to halt their scientific activities, Nahavandian said, adding that they cannot find faults with Iran’s producing nuclear fuel for its various reactors.

The Chief of Staff of the President’s Office then praised the Iranian nation for their exemplary resistance in the course of the past 13 years and Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for his timely declaration of a policy of heroic flexibility.

Such a policy played a pivotal role in coming to terms with the stubborn Western states over Iran’s peaceful nuclear program, he added.

A senior Iranian cleric has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to a mutual understanding reached between Iran and P5+1 in Switzerland, warning the West against violation of its obligations as per the joint statement.

“Iran will abide by whatever it has agreed within this framework and will live up to its promise,” Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani said in his sermon to worshippers at the weekly Friday Prayers in Tehran.

“But if you break your promise, so will Iran,” he added, addressing P5+1.

He said the joint statement issued by Iran and six powers in the Swiss city of Lausanne sets an “excellent and fundamental” general framework for further talks between them.

The senior cleric added that the statement showed that the West has recognized Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy, which the Western governments used to refuse to accept as Iran’s right.

Emami Kashani noted that the second important issue included in the statement is that the sanctions would be “lifted” instead of being simply “suspended.”

“They initially did not accept to remove the sanctions, but now they’ve accepted,” he said, adding that the ways the sanctions would be lifted depends on upcoming discussions for a final accord.

The top cleric further hailed great efforts made by the Iranian nuclear negotiating team led by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to reach mutual understanding with the six powers.

Following the end of eight days of intensive nuclear negotiations in Lausanne on Thursday, Iran and P5+1– the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany – issued a joint statement, saying that no Iranian nuclear facility will be shut down or suspended and all sanctions against the Islamic Republic will be lifted.

Less than 24 hours after Iran and P5+1 reached the mutual understanding over Tehran’s nuclear program, the US published a fact sheet detailing parameters for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The sheet, however, seems to have differences with the original joint statement.

While the agreed plan predicts a 10-year framework of action, the White House fact sheet says uranium enrichment at Iran’s Fordow facility would stop for at least 15 years.

Although Iran has reiterated that all sanctions have to be lifted simultaneously as soon as the final deal comes into force, the US version indicates that the architecture of nuclear-related sanctions will be retained for much of the duration of the deal.

The US fact sheet also says the bans will be also snapped back into place in the event of any non-performance. It adds that the UN Security Council could re-impose all previous sanctions in case the issue of non-performance cannot be resolved through negotiations.