Leader's Top Aide: Iran Ready for All Scenarios of JCPOA

Rasa - Iranian Supreme Leader's top aide for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati underlined that the Islamic Republic has prepared itself for the US possible withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 12.

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Date: 04 May 2018 - 20:15

RNA - "Iran is committed to the historical deal without slightest violation, but if America retreats from it, Iran will not remain either," Velayati said on Thursday.

The top advisor stressed that even the US allies, specially the European states, are willing to revise the already signed deal to remain in JCPOA, surely Iran's only option will be to retreat from the nuclear deal.

According to Fars News Agancy, Iran last Wednesday strongly rejected the possibility to accept any new agreement made by the US and the European states on the 2015 nuclear deal, stressing that the internationally-endorsed deal is not renegotiable.

"I, as a representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran, declare at this international security conference in which representatives of over 100 countries from 5 world continents are present that any agreement made by Europe and the US on the future of the nuclear deal and Iran's nuclear program for the era after the limitations envisaged in the nuclear deal end, is invalid and worthless in our view," Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said, addressing the security conference in Sochi, Russia.

"I assure you that certainly their dreams about Iran will not come true," he added.

Shamkhani stressed that any renegotiation of the sunset clauses and the date on which the sanctions should be terminated at the end of the JCPOA's 10-year-long period would push the nuclear deal into collapse, given the fact that the world powers had themselves undertaken to lift them under the nuclear deal.

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