TEHRAN, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Iran's nuclear chief said on Wednesday that all technical issues on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have been cleared pending a solution to the political issues.

"The technical discussions of the (Vienna) negotiations on the return of the United States to the JCPOA and to its commitments have been clarified and completed," Mohammad Eslami, president of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), told the local Jamaran news website.

"Now, the political issues must be resolved and they must fulfill their obligation to lift the sanctions, the sanctions they have imposed illegally and oppressively," Eslami was quoted as saying.

He also rejected western claims of possible weapon use in Iran's nuclear program, saying Iran has made significant steps toward the "peaceful" use of nuclear technology in medicine and agriculture.

On the production of nuclear electricity in Iran, he noted his country's plans for generating 10,000 MW of nuclear electricity in future.

"The whole world is rapidly moving toward nuclear technology and nuclear power use, why don't we go?" Eslami said.

In 2015, Iran signed the JCPOA with world powers, including the United States. However, former U.S. President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the agreement in May 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran, including freezing some of Iran's assets abroad, prompting the latter to drop some of its nuclear commitments.

Since April 2021, eight rounds of talks have been held in Vienna between Iran and the remaining JCPOA parties to revive the deal. Enditem

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