Parliament Speaker Warns US Against Scrapping Nuclear Deal with Iran

Rasa - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called on the US to fulfill its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) singed between Tehran and the six world powers (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany).

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Date: 30 June 2017 - 21:22

RNA - "Scrapping the deal is not in the interest of the Americans and such a statement is mere rhetoric, which may be aimed at pushing their own economic rivals out of the field,” Larijani said.

He, meantime, underlined that the nuclear agreement incorporates a dispute resolution mechanism; if anybody has an objection, they should act accordingly.

Larijani, meantime, slammed US President Donald Trump's "empty rhetoric" against the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers, and said that the idea of scrapping the deal is not in Washington’s interest.

Iran and the world powers signed the JCPOA in July 2015 and started implementing it in January 2016.

Under the JCPOA, Iran undertook to put limitations on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions imposed against Tehran.

The former US administration officials have assured the Congress that the JCPOA would not affect the existing non-nuclear sanctions against Iran, but they strongly advised the US legislators against imposing any new non-nuclear sanction against Tehran, arguing that new bans may jeopardize the nuclear deal.

However, Washington has so far slapped two rounds of sanctions on Iran under the new US administration over the country’s missile work.

On June 15, the US Senate passed a sanctions bill by an overwhelming margin against Iran’s ballistic missile program and the country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) over allegations of support for terrorism.

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