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By Sara Rajabova

An Iranian MP said parliament approval a binding bill for safeguarding nuclear achievements which is aimed at supporting nuclear negotiating team.

Ebrahim Karkhane, Chairman of the Parliament’s Nuclear Committee said the parliament approved a single-urgency motion to oblige the government to safeguard the country’s nuclear achievements and it would turn to a law after evaluating by the lawmakers, IRNA quoted him as saying on February 4.

During an open session of the Iranian Parliament on February 3, 173 out of the 205 present lawmakers voted for the motion to give it an urgency status.

If approved the legislation would force the government to cancel Geneva deal reached with six world powers and resume nuclear activities which were limited as part of the agreementif the United States imposes new sanctions on Tehran.

Karkhane pointed out that the bill would be evaluated by parliament’sEnergy Commission and National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in near future.

He also added that based on the bill, removal of all sanctions at once is Iran's precondition for implementation of any possible comprehensive nuclear deal.

This comes as the U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted in late January to advance a bill that would toughen sanctions on Iran if international negotiators fail to reach a nuclear deal by the end of June.

Also, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Chairman of the Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said any new decision by the U.S.Congress to impose sanctions will face the Iranian parliament's serious reaction.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani had earlier warned that the Iranian legislature would reciprocate any new U.S. sanctions with intensifying nuclear activities, including enriching uranium to the 60 percent grade for industrial use.

Since an interim deal was agreed in Geneva in November 2013, the negotiating sides missed two deadlines to ink a final agreement.

The two sides now seek to reach a high-level political agreement by March 1 and confirm the full technical details of the accord by July 1.

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