article_snippet.sent: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday demanded that all sanctions on Iran be lifted at the same time as any final agreement with world powers on curbing Tehran's nuclear program is reached.
article_snippet.sent: Khamenei, the Islamic Republic's most powerful figure and who has the last say on all state matters, was making Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei first comments on a nuclear deal reached last week in the Swiss city of Lausanne.
article_snippet.sent: Instant annulment of all sanction is one of the demands of our officials,' Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech broadcast live on state television,' according to translations published by Reuters and the nonprofit Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
article_snippet.sent: I neither support nor oppose a nuclear deal, since nothing has happened yet,' Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. '
article_snippet.sent: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday that nothing is final and Iran will continue to insist on a complete withdrawal of sanctions .
article_snippet.sent: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissal of what the White House claimed Tehran had agreed to .
article_snippet.sent: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stand on the lifting of sanctions matched earlier comments by President Hassan Rouhani, who said 'we will not sign any agreement, unless all economic sanctions are totally lifted on the first day of the implementation of a nuclear deal.'
article_snippet.sent: All #sanctions should be removed just when the deal is reached,' Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted later. '
article_snippet.sent: A gradual lifting of sanctions in return for each step taken by Tehran is the only way to secure Tehran's cooperation in the future,' Alfoneh said. '
article_snippet.sent: Khamenei and Rouhani spoke during a ceremony on Thursday marking Iran's National Day of Nuclear Technology. '
article_snippet.sent: The tentative accord was a step towards a settlement that would allay Western fears that Iran could build an atomic bomb, with economic sanctions on Tehran being lifted in return.
article_snippet.sent: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled out any 'extraordinary supervision measures' over Iran's nuclear activities. '
article_snippet.sent: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei then reiterated Iranian denials that Tehran was seeking to build a nuclear weapon.