Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard troops rappel down a helicopter on a naval vessel during a military drill in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on February 25, 2015.(Photo: Hamed Jafarnejad, AFP/Getty Images)
A senior military commander in Iran said Sunday that foreign inspectors would be barred from military sites in the country under any nuclear agreement with world powers, the Associated Press reported.
Speaking on state TV, Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, said allowing the inspection is tantamount to "selling out," according to the news agency.
The United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany — the so-called P5 +1 group — reached an understanding with Iran earlier this month on limits to its nuclear program in return for lifting crippling economic sanctions.
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Negotiators have until June 30 to fill in the critical details to assure Iran it will get relief from the sanctions as soon as possible and to guarantee world powers that Iran won't develop a nuclear weapon.
Earlier this month Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President Hassan Rouhani said that any nuclear agreement must include the immediate lifting of economic sanctions.
The framework deal agreed to after the talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, states that sanctions will be suspended after international monitors verify Iran is abiding by the limitations set out and that sanctions will resume if Iran fails to fulfill its obligation
The United States has said the sanctions would be lifted in phases, but the details have not been negotiated.
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