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Trump's Recent Remarks Reaffirm US Non-Commitment to Iran Sanction Removal

Rasa - Vice-Chairman of the Iranian parliament's Economic Commission Seyed Nasser Moussavi Laregani said the recent remarks by new US President Donald Trump indicated once again that Washington has never intended to remove the sanctions against Tehran.

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Date: 21 January 2017 - 20:18

RNA - "The US has not taken even one step in line with its commitments based on the nuclear deal and has not removed any sanctions," Moussavi Laregani said on Saturday.

Reminding that former US President Barack Obama also approved the law to extend the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) a few days before the end of his tenure, he said, "The recent remarks of the new US president also showed that they have never sought to remove the sanctions, and rather attempted to intensify them."

The extension of the ISA by the US has garnered huge criticism in Tehran and the US has been implicated with being the first to undermine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The general mentality among the diplomats as well as statesman favored Obama’s vetoing the extension; however, he preferred to not to either sign or veto the Act, which made the act automatically the law.

Iran and the six world powers held several rounds of talks in Geneva, Lausanne and Vienna before striking a final agreement in Vienna on July 14 to end a 13-year-old nuclear standoff.

After the agreement, the UN Security Council unanimously endorsed a draft resolution turning into international law the JCPOA reached between Iran and the world powers over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

The White House announced on Friday that the Trump administration intends to develop missile defense system against what it called as attacks from Iran and North Korea.

With regard to Iran, Trump has spoken out against the nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers, promising during his election campaign to “rip it up”.

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