Parliament examining JCPOA with extra sensitivity: MP

Boroujerdi said that former chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and former nuclear chief Fereydoun Abbasi attended a session of the JCPOA Review Committee.

A senior member of parliament Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Tuesday that the Iranian lawmakers are examining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with extraordinary sensitivity.

Speaking to reporters, Boroujerdi, the chairman of the chamber’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said that JCPOA is being scrutinized by parliament.

Boroujerdi said that former Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi had attended a session of the special committee for examining JCPOA earlier in the day.

Issues related to JCPOA as well as what has to be approved by parliament and the report that has to be delivered to the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and other lawmakers is being examined in the special committee, he said.

Golrokh Askarieh

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