Zarif:

US Rattled by Iran's Full Compliance with N. Deal

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the positions taken by Washington officials reveal that the US wishes for Tehran's defiance of the 2015 nuclear deal to find a ground to implement their warmongering policies.

News ID: 66502

Date: 17 October 2017 - 18:31

"Warmongers (in the US) confess they're more worried that we abide by the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) than violate it. No spin will mask this," Zarif wrote on his twitter page on Tuesday.

He called on the American rulers to abide by the nuclear deal, saying, "The US should try to comply — just like us."

US President Donald Trump refused to certify the 2015 international nuclear agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, and warned that he might ultimately terminate it, in defiance of other world powers and undermining a landmark victory of multilateral diplomacy.

Trump said he would choose not to certify that Tehran is complying with the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, while the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has eight times confirmed Tehran's compliance.

While Trump did not pull Washington out of the nuclear deal, he gave the US Congress 60 days to decide whether to reimpose economic sanctions against Tehran that were lifted under the pact.

After Trump's comments, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini underlined that the US president is not in a position to decertify Iran’s nuclear deal with the six world powers.

Mogherini stressed that the 2015 accord does not belong to any single country, and said, "To my knowledge there is no single country in the world that can terminate a UN Security Council's resolution that has been adopted, and adopted unanimously, and implemented, and verified."

The EU foreign policy chief said that it is clearly not in the hands of any president of any country in the world to terminate an agreement of this sort, adding, "The president of the United States has many powers (but) not this one."

She underlined the EU’s determination to abide by the JCPOA, noting that the bloc expects the other parties to the deal to adopt the same stance.

"We cannot afford as an international community, as Europe for sure, to dismantle an agreement that is working and delivering," Mogherini said.