article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Iran will sign a final nuclear agreement only if economic sanctions against Iran are removed on the first day of the deal's implementation, President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: U.S., however, has stressed that if a final deal is reached with Iran, the removal of any sanctions will come in phases.
article_snippet.sent: We will not sign any deal unless on the very first day of any deal implementation all economic sanctions against Iran are lifted all at once,Rouhani Rouhani said at  a ceremony to mark National Nuclear Technology Day in Tehran.
article_snippet.sent: U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, a nuclear physicist and negotiator with Iran, estimated it would take six months after a final deal is signed for all economic sanctions against Iran to be lifted.
article_snippet.sent: Asked if the Iranians were aware of that time frame during the negotiations -- before Rouhani called for the immediate lifting of sanctions -- Moniz said, "Oh, yes, for sure.
article_snippet.sent: The sanctions that were put in place -- again, very bipartisan sanctions passed by Congress years ago that were effective -- the only way to get rid of The sanctions that were put in place -- again, very bipartisan sanctions passed by Congress years ago that were effective -- completely would be for Congress to vote to ease those sanctions," Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana said in a radio interview with WWL in New Orleans on Wednesday.
article_snippet.sent: In exchange, the United States and the European Union would lift sanctions that have crippled the country's economy.