Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif says US President Donald Trump’s speech outlining an aggressive new strategy against Iran violated Tehran’s nuclear agreement with world powers.
Trump’s virulent speech contravened three articles of the 2015 deal, Zarif says in televised remarks broadcast late on Saturday. They include the requirement to implement the accord “in good faith” and for the US to “refrain from re-introducing or re-imposing” sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear programmer.
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif of Iran at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, September 20, 2017. (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)
“I have already written nine letters [to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini] listing the cases where the United States has failed to act on or delayed its commitments under the JCPOA,” Zarif says, using the technical name for the nuclear deal.
Mogherini helped negotiate the nuclear deal alongside the US, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia.
Zarif said he would write a new letter regarding Trump’s speech last Friday, and warned of a “reciprocal measure” if sanctions were reimposed.
— AFP
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