Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warns that failure to save the nuclear deal after the exit of the United States would be “very dangerous” for Tehran.
The United States announced in May that it was withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposing sanctions that would hit international businesses working in the Islamic Republic.
The other parties to the deal — Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia — have vowed to stay in the accord but appear powerless to stop their companies pulling out of Iran for fear of US penalties.
“Failure of the JCPOA (nuclear deal) would be very dangerous for us,” Zarif tells members of the Iran Chamber of Commerce, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
IRNA has not said if he amplified on the dangers posed to Iran.
“This is certainly not the (Iranian political) system’s choice,” adds Zarif, one of the architects of the nuclear pact.
— AFP
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